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Magazines cost money and they're still full of ads. Nothing will change online.
by raspyberr 5y ago
Magazines cost money and they're still full of ads. Nothing will change online.
- ksec 5y agoBecause not All Ads are bad, but no one seems to be interested in making ads better.
- robbedpeter 5y agoMost ads are bad from the user perspective. Low information enticements rarely perform any useful function. High information discussions, product placement in entertainment, informative websites and tutorials are good, but the vast majority of ads are just terrible races to the bottom.
- adolph 5y agoIsn’t that the problem with many things sold to broad audiences? Say feature bloat in Word or Excel, or how nearly every appliance has a clock as if everything else wasn’t flashing 12:00 already? Oh, maybe the parent comment is that of an idealist who thinks things don’t have to be that way…
- pessimizer 5y agoThat's a difference I've never noted between ads that people want (for example, in trade magazines) and ads that people don't. Ads that people want are information dense, filled with tiny print, numbers, and multiple photographs. Ads that people don't want try to be pretty, or entertaining. The prettiness is even biased towards minimalism. edit: In the limit as bullshit -> 0, I'm pretty sure ads transform into pages from a wholesale/B2B catalog.
- criddell 5y agoIf you live in a "good" zip code, sometimes magazines just show up for free. My theory is that publishers want to push their reader demographics in some direction, they will find a zip code that matches what they are looking for and start mailing magazines.
- amalcon 5y agoI had that happen once, and decided to cancel it as it was a waste of paper (and hard to recycle glossy paper at that). This was surprisingly difficult. It took two phone calls to figure out the third phone number, that would reach a person who could cancel it. I had to threaten to raise the issue with my state representative before they agreed to actually cancel it.
- guilhas 5y agoOnline ads can see you
- dgarrett 5y agoThe subscription fee of most magazines is only there so that they can present a "paying subscribers" number to potential advertisers. The assumption being that a paying subscriber is more likely to spend money on advertised products. This is why popular magazines constantly have deals for a year subscription for $5 or $10.
- goatforce5 5y agoI think those dirt-cheap yearly subscription deals are a US thing. I'm not sure similar deals are common in the rest of the world.