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I'm OK with some regulated advertising. I'm not OK with ad companies wanting to know my life story. Ad companies claim if I don't give up to them every bit of

I'm OK with some regulated advertising. I'm not OK with ad companies wanting to know my life story. Ad companies claim if I don't give up to them every bit of my life what I do, say, eat, work,leisure, my location, etc. then I'm the problem?! I'm ruining the Internet! Companies will fail! Show me your damn ad and move on. I'm not looking for a relationship.

asddubs 4y ago
To me, an ad is someone trying to poison your brain trying to coerce you to act in someone elses best interest. So I will block ads no matter what. At least that's the simplified version. To backpedal on that a little bit/add nuance, I reject any form of advertisement that had more than, say, 2 people involved in it. I don't care if someone tries to advertise their lemonade stand or their personal art project, but as soon as people in suits get involved, I want nothing to do with it.
akira2501 4y ago
There's this presumption of a false dichotomy when it comes to advertising on the internet. That you can have no ads and content that you have to pay for, or you must let google spam a bunch of javascript programmatically into your browser for you. Having worked many years in traditional media, the amount of time this situation has lasted has really been surprising to me. You can make the best money selling advertisements directly. Even better, once you do so, you're no longer reliant on shady third parties to deliver your ads, and ad blockers generally aren't even able to block those ads. We just never got the kind of "content aggregators" who would do this middle man work. Collect content that you pay for, categorize it into publications based on reader interest, then sell direct advertisements over the top of that publication or set of publications. People like to think we're out of the "wild west" stage on the internet. We're just _barely_ starting to pull away from it.

asddubs 4y ago

To me, an ad is someone trying to poison your brain trying to coerce you to act in someone elses best interest. So I will block ads no matter what. At least that's the simplified version. To backpedal on that a little bit/add nuance, I reject any form of advertisement that had more than, say, 2 people involved in it. I don't care if someone tries to advertise their lemonade stand or their personal art project, but as soon as people in suits get involved, I want nothing to do with it.

akira2501 4y ago

There's this presumption of a false dichotomy when it comes to advertising on the internet. That you can have no ads and content that you have to pay for, or you must let google spam a bunch of javascript programmatically into your browser for you. Having worked many years in traditional media, the amount of time this situation has lasted has really been surprising to me. You can make the best money selling advertisements directly. Even better, once you do so, you're no longer reliant on shady third parties to deliver your ads, and ad blockers generally aren't even able to block those ads. We just never got the kind of "content aggregators" who would do this middle man work. Collect content that you pay for, categorize it into publications based on reader interest, then sell direct advertisements over the top of that publication or set of publications. People like to think we're out of the "wild west" stage on the internet. We're just _barely_ starting to pull away from it.