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When the founders look back at their life and see "litter the internet with garbage" as their biggest accomplishment, I wonder if the money will be worth it.
by KoftaBob 7y ago
When the founders look back at their life and see "litter the internet with garbage" as their biggest accomplishment, I wonder if the money will be worth it.
- crispyambulance 7y agoYou're assuming that those people will actually "look back at their life". Many don't, never will, and are incapable of understanding what the problem even is.
- KoftaBob 7y agoUnfortunately you're probably right.
- patd 7y agoThey probably don't care or see it as a way to keep newspapers in business. I'm running an adtech platform for newspapers (I do price comparison and I believe that I add value to the product review articles) and newspapers need to generate revenue. They usually have loads of staff from decades ago when people were still buying paper journals and magazines.
- KoftaBob 7y agoI'm not against the idea of ads, at their best they actually serve as a form of product discovery for viewers. What I am against is deceptive and low quality clickbait.