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> We always paid for magazines and newspapers and saw ads despite paying just because that happened doesn't mean it has to keep happening, we can do better
by Raed667 2y ago
> We always paid for magazines and newspapers and saw ads despite paying
just because that happened doesn't mean it has to keep happening, we can do better
- alkonaut 2y agoAds in a paid product might be annoying, but it's not secretly charging the customer and then also selling their information. Paying customers are also identified (logged in). So in theory you could pinpoint me even more with ads after I decided to be a paying customer.
- akira2501 2y ago> do better Which is what? > just because that happened The subtleties matter. The ads were purchased per issue or over several issues. The publication solicited the advertisers business and not the other way around. The rates were set per publication and were equal for all potential buyers. The ads were static and approved by the publisher before being included for distribution. Then you get doubleclick now swallowed up by google. Which reversed all of this and reversed all of the incentives as well. So now people publish crap to create automatically filled ad inventory instead of having a more or less fixed inventory which required real work to get contracted buyers for.