2 ms·
Consumer harm is easy to demonstrate IMHO. Google monopolized search with the great product they developed, and then tied it to an ever increasingly aggressive
by alex_young 6y ago
Consumer harm is easy to demonstrate IMHO.
Google monopolized search with the great product they developed, and then tied it to an ever increasingly aggressive ad product which in turn makes all of the web practically unusable without filtering.
There’s noting inherently expensive about serving http, and it should be getting ever cheaper as Moore’s Law progress along its merry way, but for this middle man we’ve all gotten addicted to.
- olladecarne 6y agoI think you've got the causality wrong here. There’s noting inherently expensive about serving http -> makes all of the web practically unusable without filtering -> Google monopolized search with the great product they developed Serving http is getting cheaper, therefore the filtering problem is getting harder, therefore it's harder for new competitors to emerge. Either way, I agree that ads are the root of the problem because it makes serving garbage http so cheap or profitable. Force people to make informed decisions about where to spend their time and money. Right now people just click away on anything so garbage clickbait is one of the most profitable models.