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While I use ublock and ad blocking DNS, this particular ad-free Internet isn’t sustainable. For better or worse, the business model behind many of these sites
by haswell 3y ago
While I use ublock and ad blocking DNS, this particular ad-free Internet isn’t sustainable.
For better or worse, the business model behind many of these sites rely on the ad revenue to continue existing, and ad blocking only works as long as most people still aren’t doing it.
- oldpersonintx 3y agoDon't worry about sustainability. There was life before YouTube and Facebook and there will be life after. I am not sacrificing my mental well-being for a false economy. If the internet rots out its own Ponzi Scheme, we will build something else
- haswell 3y ago> The ad-free internet has already been here for a long time > Don't worry about sustainability. There was life before YouTube and Facebook and there will be life after Which is it? The point is that this version of the ad-free doesn’t actually exist in the long run. In a discussion about a move away from the “false economy” you highlight via paid subscriptions (presumably not a false economy), it seems odd to say that this already exists while also admitting that it doesn’t/can’t.
- 5evOX5hTZ9mYa9E 3y agoInternet existed before it was commercialized up the wazoo. The way I see it, if all the so-called platforms (Google, Facebook, etc) went bankrupt tomorrow, the internet as a whole would be better, not worse.
- phone8675309 3y ago> For better or worse, the business model behind many of these sites rely on the ad revenue to continue existing I fail to see how this is my problem as an end user.