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I still prefer getting an ad about a video course I can buy than a random spam video about a mobile game I will never download. Advertisements keep the interne

• mikro2nd 6y ago
  It is not my (the "consumer's") responsibility to invent a viable business model for news/social media/video. That is their problem. If the only thing they can come up with is advertising, I, for one, am quite happy to let them die and will continue blocking any and all ads I can possibly block.
• hedora 6y ago
  Using display ads instead of targeted ads would solve the privacy problem, and is still a viable business model. Because ads would be targeted at apps or publishers, not users, premium content would control the premium ad space. This would be good for content creators, consumers, and high quality sites / development houses. It would be bad for ad auction houses, but they don’t provide nearly as much societal value as the newspapers and magazines they replaced.
  • chillacy 6y ago
    This is how podcasts work today at least, the ads are targeted towards interests based on the audience of the podcaster. I don’t know how effective this is though.