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I'd keep writing comments and the occasional blog post, but I might not devote my life to documenting German bureaucracy, as I currently do. That's by far my mo
by nicbou 4y ago
I'd keep writing comments and the occasional blog post, but I might not devote my life to documenting German bureaucracy, as I currently do. That's by far my most valuable contribution.
It's a bit like how I love to cook for friends on the weekends, but don't volunteer as a line cook in restaurants. Without any reward, I'd have to get a job and I'd have far less time to write.
You can't run everything on sheer passion. Some valuable things depend on creators getting rewarded for their work.
- autoexec 4y agoWith an internet that didn't run on ads we'd lose some things for sure. Some of them useful or entertaining, but we'd also lose a lot of the SEO/contentfarm garbage and it'd be a huge win for people's privacy. How successful have you been with getting tips and how does that compare to the income ads generate for you?
- nicbou 4y agoYou dismiss most of the internet so casually that you seem to argue in bad faith. Most of the useful internet monetises its traffic one way or another, and not just with privacy-invading ads. My website looks and works the same with an ad blocker, and it's as far from blogspam as it gets. I'll leave it at that, and invite you to flex your imagination a bit. Think of all the websites you depend on that would not survive having zero revenue.