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Advertising and SEO ruined the internet. There is barely any content left of any value that isn't on walled garden platforms, because it was too profitable for
by colechristensen 2y ago
Advertising and SEO ruined the internet.
There is barely any content left of any value that isn't on walled garden platforms, because it was too profitable for folks to turn the open Internet channels into the lowest form of spam which is what everything degraded to.
- Veuxdo 2y agoOr, the valuable content has decamped to the apps, because the web cannot be effectively monitized anymore.
- colechristensen 2y agoPeople were putting content on the web long before you could make any reasonable money from it. Before a small number of people could make a large amount of money with “content” and a large amount of people could make almost nothing trying… people shared stuff because they could and built little communities out of it.
- krschacht 2y agoThe decline of advertising's effectiveness has led to the paywalls everywhere. I much preferred the days when links took me to content that I could read.