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The internet as you know it would not exist without ads.
by jklinger410 3y ago
The internet as you know it would not exist without ads.
- nradov 3y agoThat would be awesome.
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 3y agoIt would exist as we knew it back in the 90s / early 00s. It would consist of Wikipedia, McMaster Carr, BBS forums, and weird guys' hobby blogs. It would be one million percent better.
- jklinger410 3y agoWebrings, the original Web 1.0 that many gush about on this site, were partially designed to farm adsense revenue. AOL started putting ads on your dashboard less than 2 years after it launched. There wasn't a very long period of ad-free internet.
- actionfromafar 3y agoStatic banner ads with no (user) tracking aint such a bad thing IMHO. I wonder how this could be implemented at a technical level. How do you avoid gaming the system?
- xarope 3y agotongue in cheek, I don't remember any ads in gopher sites, back in the days.
- shmde 3y agoThis river which has turned into a giant gutter would not exist without the filth.
- JohnFen 3y agoTrue! That's the problem with ads. They changed the web for the worse.
- kibwen 3y agoDon't you go threatening me with a good time.