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I can imagine great benefits to eradicating advertising but I fear most of the internet can't exist without the ad revenue which might lead to an overall worse

by Tenoke 5y ago

I can imagine great benefits to eradicating advertising but I fear most of the internet can't exist without the ad revenue which might lead to an overall worse state of affairs for most people.

fouc 5y ago
It existed just fine in the 90s without nearly as much advertising. And honestly people need to get used to paying for services, instead of being the product.
- bsaul 5y ago
  As much as i hate ad business, you've got to admit the 90s internet barely has anything to do with today's. It was fun and wild, but very amateurish. You can't sustain the scale of investments made on today's internet without a robust income stream.
- Jensson 5y ago
  > And honestly people need to get used to paying for services, instead of being the product. Why? I see no reason for that, it would just lock out most people in the world from these products.
- Tenoke 5y ago
  It existed in the 90s but many of the resources we enjoy today didn't and couldn't exist then.
Intermernet 5y ago
I run multiple online properties without advertising. I would (and in some cases do) support the sites I use regularly by paying them directly. I pay for YouTube to not advertise at me, and I'm a Patreon. I happily pay AWS and GCE costs. I pay for streaming services and other random hosted services. I'd love to have an advertising free option for search engines (Yes, I use DDG), Reddit, Twitter etc. I'd also like it if any news services I subscribed to removed advertising on any articles I accessed, but this still seems like it hasn't settled into their mindset, so I'm still hesitant on this particular front. I'd also happily subsidise other people's access to these sites. I'm a regular donator to Wikipedia, and I've funded archive.org . I want people to have these resources. I Just don't want them to be advertised at when they access these resources.
abecedarius 5y ago
We have peer-to-peer digital cash now. It's no longer a choice of advertising vs. monthly or yearly subscriptions through a credit card payment processor.

by Tenoke 5y ago

I can imagine great benefits to eradicating advertising but I fear most of the internet can't exist without the ad revenue which might lead to an overall worse state of affairs for most people.

fouc 5y ago

It existed just fine in the 90s without nearly as much advertising. And honestly people need to get used to paying for services, instead of being the product.

bsaul 5y ago
As much as i hate ad business, you've got to admit the 90s internet barely has anything to do with today's. It was fun and wild, but very amateurish. You can't sustain the scale of investments made on today's internet without a robust income stream.
Jensson 5y ago
> And honestly people need to get used to paying for services, instead of being the product. Why? I see no reason for that, it would just lock out most people in the world from these products.
Tenoke 5y ago
It existed in the 90s but many of the resources we enjoy today didn't and couldn't exist then.

Intermernet 5y ago

I run multiple online properties without advertising. I would (and in some cases do) support the sites I use regularly by paying them directly. I pay for YouTube to not advertise at me, and I'm a Patreon. I happily pay AWS and GCE costs. I pay for streaming services and other random hosted services. I'd love to have an advertising free option for search engines (Yes, I use DDG), Reddit, Twitter etc. I'd also like it if any news services I subscribed to removed advertising on any articles I accessed, but this still seems like it hasn't settled into their mindset, so I'm still hesitant on this particular front. I'd also happily subsidise other people's access to these sites. I'm a regular donator to Wikipedia, and I've funded archive.org . I want people to have these resources. I Just don't want them to be advertised at when they access these resources.

abecedarius 5y ago

We have peer-to-peer digital cash now. It's no longer a choice of advertising vs. monthly or yearly subscriptions through a credit card payment processor.