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Going in a big for-profit news paywall thingie that require I shut down anonymous browsing or ad blocking is to me the mental equivalent of picking up an uninde
by Iv 7y ago
Going in a big for-profit news paywall thingie that require I shut down anonymous browsing or ad blocking is to me the mental equivalent of picking up an unindentified pile of trash in the street. You know you'll have to wash hands afterwards.
Really, I think people will realize at one time that there is no way around simply forbidding advertisements to make internet sane again.
If 10% of the ingenuity spent in the ad/tracking system went towards microtransactions, instead of having to swim through a sewer of ads on any website, we would be rewarding each other with micro-dollars for insightful comments and giving 5% of it to the host.
- prox 7y agoI think the big problem is choice. I have no choice but to accept ads on every blippin’ website (if I use a vanilla browser setup) and be tracked. The choice is taken away from me/us and thats the core of the problem. The early internet was way more diverse in content, less converged, and one reason for that is there was no/less incessant need yet to ‘grab eyeballs’ and push for clicks. That www hasn’t fully gone, but its just burried under the tons and tons of marketing fluff. Both content provider and user have become the poorer because of it.
- cryptonym 7y agoGreedy people deceiving users... I hardly see micro-transaction as a solution. Just like ad/tracking, we would be rewarding big corps and click baiters, not each other.
- Iv 7y agoPay for content you liked, don't pay for content you don't. How do you propose deception to work in that case?