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Journalists need to eat and advertising-funded websites rely on people clicking on the adverts and spending money. People are strangely reluctant to do this.
by tsukikage 3y ago
Journalists need to eat and advertising-funded websites rely on people clicking on the adverts and spending money.
People are strangely reluctant to do this.
As we all know, the true reason people don't buy stuff from online adverts is that the adverts just aren't loud, visible and obnoxious enough.
If we make it literally physically impossible to look at anything else or navigate away, people will buy some of what we're peddling.
- barfbagginus 3y agoJournalists don't need to eat though. They can be replaced by fully automated open source and free AI news agent self loops run by volunteer computation resources. If they're going to exploit our attention and refused implement free and open source newsagents on their own, but instead extort us for subscriptions and steal our attention with unwanted ads, then we have no choice but to displace them with our own free and liberated solutions to the news problem. Their time is marked.