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Or they'll move on to a more sustainable business model that doesn't involve selling their user's privacy?
by simias 6y ago
Or they'll move on to a more sustainable business model that doesn't involve selling their user's privacy?
- jshen 6y agoA business model that will exclude the poor.
- jay_kyburz 6y agoLets not pretend that ads help people with less money. Ads are designed to manipulate people into buying things they don't need. They encourage people to believe their self worth is linked to the things they own. That a persons status in society is somehow associated with how much money they have to spend.
- rewq4321 6y ago> Lets not pretend that ads help people with less money. Who's pretending? Ads naturally and quite effectively price-discriminate, and so they do make internet content cheaper for people with less money. You may have problems with excessive consumption, but many people in developing countries do not. They desperately need the free content (educational, informative, and otherwise) that the current internet model provides them.
- jay_kyburz 6y agoThere are much better options to provide people with educational, informative and entertaining content. Well funded public broadcasters like Australia ABC provide news and entertainment content free. (both text and video) Well funded public libraries can provide a wide range of alternate content.
- google234123 6y agoYeah, let's pretend libraries have equivalent content to the free internet!
- account42 6y agoLet's pretend that most creators of free content on the internet are compensated by ads.
- jshen 6y agoMy family is made up of poor immigrants, many of whom are back in their home country. Free communication systems are a godsend for them. While I love libraries and public broadcasting, I learned to code as a poor kid through library books, they are not the full solution and they never provided free, instant, and any time international communication for people.
- jshen 6y agoYou have a very low opinion of humans. I happen to think people are a bit better equipped to make their own decisions than you do.
- anoncake 6y agoAds aren't free to run and the price is baked into the product's. The poor don't benefit from them.