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> Tracking is becoming less effective, and the only recourse they have is stuffing even more ads everywhere to make up for the lost revenue from targeting. Thi
by pdpi 5y ago
> Tracking is becoming less effective, and the only recourse they have is stuffing even more ads everywhere to make up for the lost revenue from targeting. This is great, because you're not affected if you have uBlock Origin. If you don't, install it right now.
That's part of the context, and pretty much goes in the direction of "I just don't want any advertising at all". I can sympathise, but we need to find a way to pay for services.
- D13Fd 5y agoThis is actually what bothered me the most about the article. If we all install add blockers, content producers can't make money.
- BizarroLand 5y agoI disagree. The shift would be towards content producers offering tiers of service and content, for instance a free tier to draw people in and a paid service with perks & more content. A few companies do this already. There could also be a change in the advertising model, for instance, online newspapers could sell and host ads on their own servers based on the news content of the article instead of by targeting users with tracking cookies. If you're reading an article about a chef you may be interested in cookware, after all.
- basscomm 5y agoThere are other ways to make money producing content besides advertisements
- xboxnolifes 5y agoI would be more supporting of turning off my ad-block if the average blog or news post didn't have 70% of the screen be ads, with 2 ad popups, a cookie banner, an auto-playing video, and a redirect to another ad page on first click.
- only_as_i_fall 5y agoI'll write them a check then. The real reason these service's need to extract data from their users isn't that they can't make money any other way, but that predatory pricing has been allowed to kill on the non free competition.
- 8note 5y agoEasy. VC money pays for it.