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> What should the people who have nothing of value to exchange but their attention use for currency? Doesn't matter. What matters is everybody else is not giv
by tripzilch 7y ago
> What should the people who have nothing of value to exchange but their attention use for currency?
Doesn't matter. What matters is everybody else is not given any choice about it.
- shadowgovt 7y agoI agree; that's a structural problem I'd like to see improved. Google used to have a Contributor program where you could pay directly to not see ads, but it was shut down at some point it seems. Some websites offer you the opportunity to pay a subscription fee to avoid ads, but it's very ad-hoc (no pun intended). A general solution for that where people could avoid ads by direct-paying publishers would be nice to have. As it stands, we're left with not-so-great options for the consumer where we either just deal with the annoyance of ads, choose to consume advertising-free content at a premium (that differs from the ad-supported content), or try to cheat the system by getting ad-supported content without ads.