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Short and simple response. > *Advertising in it's current form* is a plague on humanity. Magazine ads were not highly targeted towards every user that bought
by hightrix 2y ago
Short and simple response.
> *Advertising in it's current form* is a plague on humanity.
Magazine ads were not highly targeted towards every user that bought one. We liked magazine ads, they were high quality and usually contextually relevant.
Modern advertising is nothing like magazine ads. We don't take screenshots of ads on webpages, print them out, and hang them on our walls like we did with magazine ads.
> Why do you think Google provides you with free searches?
To deliver ads. The same reason Google does everything else.
- WalterBright 2y agoWhat would you do without a search engine? Who do you think is going to pay for it?
- PlattypusRex 2y agoPay for Kagi or any other good, paid search engine, which is already superior to Google today?
- WalterBright 2y agoRight, you get ads, or you pay. Businesses aren't charities.
- Apocryphon 2y agoSo the existence of for-pay search engines would disprove the assertion that advertisements are necessary, as there are alternate ways to find information and fund businesses that fetch you that information, without relying on ads.
- hightrix 2y agoThese are problems unrelated to the topic at hand. We aren't going to solve every bit of this situation in this comment thread. Who pays for it? Not my problem. I'll use whatever free service exists, there will always be one. Without a search engine? The internet would fail and targeted ads would cease to exist.
- WalterBright 2y ago> I'll use whatever free service exists You'll get advertisements, then.
- Apocryphon 2y agohttps://adlock.com/blog/search-engine-without-ads/ https://adlock.com/blog/search-engine-without-ads/