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All the Freebies on the Internet of the past 20 years be it email, search, chat, news/content, video, streaming, social etc have been funded by Ads. The expect
by gsatic 3y ago
All the Freebies on the Internet of the past 20 years be it email, search, chat, news/content, video, streaming, social etc have been funded by Ads.
The expectation has been there is no upper bound to what Ads can fund. But thanks to Covid and now Chat GPT et al, we know (or atleast all the freebie providers have learnt) there is an upper bound to the Ad/Attention Economy.
Theses changes, what's happening at twitter, the tech layoffs, govt regulations and fines, are all signs using Freebies for Attention Capture are not going to endlessly scale.
- Zamiel_Snawley 3y agoHonestly, if they were just screwing developers of third party frontends, people probably wouldn't have cared that much. They are also screwing their moderators who use API-based tools, and people who need accessibility accommodations that reddit does not provide. Not to mention the scummy behavior towards the Apollo developer.
- seydor 3y agomainly because google+FB gobbled up the whole of advertising AFAIK historically the % of GDP spent on advertising was more or less constant so it s not like advertisers bailed