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This comes up again and again. People will continue creating and posting even without ad money. They will post for art, for study, hobbies, social issues or jus
by visarga 5y ago
This comes up again and again. People will continue creating and posting even without ad money. They will post for art, for study, hobbies, social issues or just to organize events. There are also those who publish free content and make a profit on something related. That's how the good old internet was working back in the day.
The problem with current internet is that everyone is trying to get the ad money so they don't really align their interests with us who want quality content.
- r0m4n0 5y agoThe problem is the freeloaders of the internet far outweigh the people that want to pay for services. Until that changes, we will continue to see the internet dominated by targeted advertising. Honestly, it will be interesting to see what happens to services like DDG. I think it will be a true test of what the world wants, an extremely well funded machine like Google or a more lean privacy centric tool. Capitalism is an interesting thing though. Targeted advertising naturally brings in more money (back to the freeloaders point)