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I don’t think ads are a necessary evil at all. Facebook and Google came along and ruined the market for paid services. Prior to that the market was healthy and
by cwhiz 6y ago
I don’t think ads are a necessary evil at all. Facebook and Google came along and ruined the market for paid services. Prior to that the market was healthy and operated just fine.
If we undo the damage caused by FB and Google we can go back to a healthy market where people pay for things with money instead of their privacy.
- iso1210 6y agoMicrosoft put Netscape and the concept of paying for a browser out of business long before FB and Google Hotmail started the war on people paying for email clients long before gmail
- cwhiz 6y agoMS certainly got the ball rolling with their anticompetitive behavior. But it was not until Facebook and Google created their spyware empires that it became essentially impossible to create paid content on the internet. Now the entire internet economy is broken.
- jefftk 6y ago> essentially impossible to create paid content on the internet Really? I see far more paywalls now than I did 5-10y ago
- iso1210 6y agoI don't recall much paid content per-se from 2000, when Yahoo ruled the roost. Now I have multiple subscription services which exist only because of the internet