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If people are not willing to pay for content and block ads, affiliate and content marketing schemes might be the future of these sites as well.
by jpalomaki 5y ago
If people are not willing to pay for content and block ads, affiliate and content marketing schemes might be the future of these sites as well.
- zo1 5y agoI think we may have stumbled upon an unfortunate circumstance of how our brains work, and it's being actively exploited (like say how we agree that marketing cigarettes to kids is bad kind of thing?). We could reasonably say that we are willing to pay for content, we're just not attuned to seeing how "free" content is actually detrimental to us and is being monetized behind the scenes. At the same time, Google/Amazon latched on to it and are taking advantage of it for their own gains. Either way, we're stuck in a downward feedback loop that's only going to make this worse until one of the big players falls over.