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> A viable alternative: show non tracking ads and see if it keeps the lights on, otherwise shut down? I'm not sure that'd be viable in general, like what would
by fabiospampinato 6y ago
> A viable alternative: show non tracking ads and see if it keeps the lights on, otherwise shut down?
I'm not sure that'd be viable in general, like what would the economic impact globally if all websites that barely can manage to keep the lights on today because of effective ads just disappeared? Maybe the impact could be even positive, like by disallowing politically very-targeted ads, among all other kinds of targeted ads, maybe we can prevent idiots from being elected, but if I had to guess I'd say I wouldn't like to see those websites disappear.
Like imagine if YouTube disappeared because it can't make enough money to host all that staggering amount of content.
- ianhorn 6y agoI wouldn't miss it. If they can find a viable non-tracking business model, I'd imagine most would. People used to pay for newspapers so there's pretty good precedent.
- dantheman 6y agoIf you don't miss it, then why bother forcing them to do this? Just don't visit their site?
- fabiospampinato 6y agoI have friends who a few years ago switched away from WhatsApp because it was charging 1 buck per year, and for that amount of money they gave you instant global unlimited text messaging, and those same people would have happily paid 10x that for a one-time meal. I think you are grossly overestimating how much the average person is willing to pay for a digital service. And I don't think newspapers are a good precedent giving how nobody buys newspapers anymore, compared to pre-internet levels at least.