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Even accepting that everything counts as an attack, there can't be an ad attacking your attention when it doesn't exist on the page in the first place.
by GavinMcG 6y ago
Even accepting that everything counts as an attack, there can't be an ad attacking your attention when it doesn't exist on the page in the first place.
- jedimastert 6y agoI put "attack" in scare-quotes for a reason. I don't see any of these things as an "attack". If I did, I wouldn't do them.
- GavinMcG 6y agoWell then you're not really engaging with the parent comment. The author said they "decide to direct my attention to this website" and used "attack" because they "didn't agree to getting my attention diverted." The useful distinction is between the content you came to the website to direct your attention toward, and things that tear your attention away.
- ApolloFortyNine 6y ago>there can't be an ad attacking your attention when it doesn't exist on the page in the first place. We can even go one step further and say there can't be an ad attacking your attention when the page itself doesn't exist at all. The bulk of the internet wouldn't exist if not for ads. Things like youtube almost certainly could not exist, with how expensive it is to store data, provide bandwidth, develop the site itself. It's only thanks to ads that the internet is where it is today.
- GavinMcG 6y agoWhich is why the parent comment acknowledged that "Obviously things don't come for free, somebody has to pay for it". The fact that ads got us here doesn't mean that we should uncritically accept that business model going forward.