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Mozilla is right to fight for a brighter future of the web! First Internet was started as academic network with little to no advertisements. Then came the adte
by acd 7y ago
Mozilla is right to fight for a brighter future of the web!
First Internet was started as academic network with little to no advertisements.
Then came the adtech model, personal data are sold for profit.
News Papers does not fully get funded and totally free when they are founded by ads.
Thus we should fight to keep an open democratic internet where quality journalism gets paid by end users not ads.
I thinks its important with an free open Internet for our democracy to work.
We have to somehow get away from adtech and attentiontech towards a user funded internet. Attentiontech is were personal attention span is what corporations fight to keep. We should have content which is good for end users.
- fauigerzigerk 7y agoI don't understand what subscriptions vs adverts has to do with being more or less democratic. I also don't understand how subscriptions are compatible with privacy. There is currently no widely used facility for making anonymous electronic payments. If there was, then governments (including democratic ones) would crack down on it hard. Journalism has always been funded through advertising.