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>If you want to be treated as a customer instead of cattle, you ought then to pay for your services, including search, to align the financial incentives with yo

>If you want to be treated as a customer instead of cattle, you ought then to pay for your services, including search, to align the financial incentives with your own. Advertising needs to die, for it is a root cause of most of the ills of the modern internet. If you can pay for streaming services or music, People pay for their Windows license, yet Windows now has ads baked into the start menu. People pay for Youtube Premium, but most videos now have "sponsor segments" -- yet more ads (though admittedly not controlled by or directly profiting YT). People pay for streaming services, but last I heard, Netflix was adding ads. Ages ago, people paid for cable television, and it wasn't long before it had ads too. These companies are going to treat you like cattle whether you're paying them directly or not.

lazystar 2y ago
bingo, this is why i mentioned (in the skip level comment) that all private companies will go through this sequence until a "search neutrality" law is introduced. after MBA's start to get diminishing returns on new subscriptions per month, the focus shifts to advertisements.
ryandv 2y ago
Then vote with your feet and your wallet by leaving. You need to send monetary signals that the service is undesirable by withdrawing your subscription. I don't understand why people continue to use tools that don't serve them and assume, by default, that because everyone else is on some platform, that I must be there too, or don't go into an actual cost-benefit analysis of whether or not the utility of the platform outweighs the drawbacks. Cal Newport comments on this default herd mentality in Deep Work: The Any-Benefit Approach to Network Tool Selection: You’re justified in using a network tool if you can identify any possible benefit to its use, or anything you might possibly miss out on if you don’t use it. In the case of Google the diminishing utility of search began to be outweighed by the increasing morass of SEO slop and advertisements, so I degoogled. After W7 when it was clear Windows was going to progress into a cloud-based ad delivery platform, I installed Linux on all my devices as a daily driver. If Netflix ever serves me ads, I am immediately terminating my subscription. Maybe it's too hard for some people.
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  >Then vote with your feet and your wallet by leaving. Yep, that's what I keep saying too, but I always either get ignored, downvoted to oblivion, or responses about how X is "necessary" because of Y (which isn't really very critical anyway, but I guess to them is, like "I must be able to play game Z!!!"). You can lead a horse...

lazystar 2y ago

bingo, this is why i mentioned (in the skip level comment) that all private companies will go through this sequence until a "search neutrality" law is introduced. after MBA's start to get diminishing returns on new subscriptions per month, the focus shifts to advertisements.

ryandv 2y ago

Then vote with your feet and your wallet by leaving. You need to send monetary signals that the service is undesirable by withdrawing your subscription. I don't understand why people continue to use tools that don't serve them and assume, by default, that because everyone else is on some platform, that I must be there too, or don't go into an actual cost-benefit analysis of whether or not the utility of the platform outweighs the drawbacks. Cal Newport comments on this default herd mentality in Deep Work: The Any-Benefit Approach to Network Tool Selection: You’re justified in using a network tool if you can identify any possible benefit to its use, or anything you might possibly miss out on if you don’t use it. In the case of Google the diminishing utility of search began to be outweighed by the increasing morass of SEO slop and advertisements, so I degoogled. After W7 when it was clear Windows was going to progress into a cloud-based ad delivery platform, I installed Linux on all my devices as a daily driver. If Netflix ever serves me ads, I am immediately terminating my subscription. Maybe it's too hard for some people.

shiroiushi 2y ago
>Then vote with your feet and your wallet by leaving. Yep, that's what I keep saying too, but I always either get ignored, downvoted to oblivion, or responses about how X is "necessary" because of Y (which isn't really very critical anyway, but I guess to them is, like "I must be able to play game Z!!!"). You can lead a horse...