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> Kill advertising and the web will be fixed automatically and permanently Is the implicit logic here "kill advertising and the web will be like what it was be
by mycologos 3y ago
> Kill advertising and the web will be fixed automatically and permanently
Is the implicit logic here "kill advertising and the web will be like what it was before widespread advertising: mostly for and by nerds"?
- matheusmoreira 3y agoThe implicit logic is to have a web for people who actually have something to say, not something to sell. If we end up with a small web by and for nerds, I'm okay with that too. Better to have that than this endless flood of negative value ad-funded SEO spam websites we have today.
- beej71 3y agoYes! Not just computer nerds, but nerds of all kinds. I want to read things by recipe nerds, not people trying to make money on ads. I want to read about cars from car nerds and home repair from home repair nerds and writing from writing nerds. I want to read things from people who share them for the pure joy of sharing them.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoCompletely agree.
- mycologos 3y agoI want that too! But things need to be easy to use if we want to hear from the people who are just X nerds and not X nerds and computer nerds. I think that's something ads enabled, because it made it valuable to just have a lot of people show up, which paid for all the work that went into making showing up easy.
- beej71 3y agoI think this should be a paid site that hosts, i.e. the nerds should pay a small amount per month to cover the ad-free hosting, like $5. Demand could drive that price down quite a bit.
- jjulius 3y agoGive me this internet, please.