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Time, effort, and concentration are limited resources. You only get so much of each of them in your lifetime. If you wish to spend your limited resources experi
by jcr 15y ago
Time, effort, and concentration are limited resources. You only get so
much of each of them in your lifetime. If you wish to spend your limited
resources experiencing advertising, it's your choice. If you'd prefer to
spend your limited resources elsewise, again, it's your choice.
If Google and Facebook curled up and died tomorrow due to no one being
willing to spend their lives experiencing advertising, something would
take their place. Whether said "something" turns out to be better or
worse is subject to debate. There are plenty of possible business
models, yet relying on revenues from advertising has a proven track
record of profitability due to most people not being savvy enough to
make advertising ineffective.
Personally, I've got better things to do with my life.
- mh_ 15y agoThe OP reminds me of O'Reillys 2003 piece (buy where you shop) http://tim.oreilly.com/articles/buy_where_shop.html http://tim.oreilly.com/articles/buy_where_shop.html In his piece Tim OReilly warned against people who browsed at bookstores, but only shopped online. I suspect the same is true here.. if you use $service regularly, and $service exists through advertising, then maybe whitelisting their ads is a reasonable trade-off to make..