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It’s really interesting - we’ve seemingly given up on curation and discovery on the internet. There’s just too much spam and scam to really make it work. Take y
by ryanobjc 4y ago
It’s really interesting - we’ve seemingly given up on curation and discovery on the internet. There’s just too much spam and scam to really make it work. Take your average recipe website: it includes multiple paragraphs of irrelevant “background story” to delay you seeing the recipe for more ad views.
Whereas books and libraries have none of that cruft. If you want to learn something the library (or bookstore) is a much better place - the books don’t come with dynamic ads and affiliate links to encourage you to buy something.
- elliekelly 4y agoIt’s not just with books, either. I think the deliberate inefficiency is a selling point for a lot of brick & mortar stores now. In second hand stores and stores like Home Goods or Five Below you have to sift through a bunch of disorganized crap to maybe find something you didn’t even know you wanted. It’s like loot box shopping, I guess.
- dangus 4y agoI'd just caution being too quick on equating "the Internet" to the sub-section of the Internet consisting of "ad-supported search engines taking you to blog content." The Internet is much bigger than google.com, and there are a lot of ways to use it outside of that experience.