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I think that's a good point, and it does make me doubt my initial comment. One issue now, on a world without ads, is what incentive would also those actors hav
by XCSme 2y ago
I think that's a good point, and it does make me doubt my initial comment.
One issue now, on a world without ads, is what incentive would also those actors have to provide you with that information? Search engine, review websites, YouTube channels, etc. Of course, we could pay them for this information. They could also have affiliate links, but doesn't then it become an ad?
I think we hate ads now simply because they are implemented poorly and there's a lot of low quality, deceiving ads for useless products.
I play table-tennis a lot, and my shoes are always wet after a session, I usually left them outside to dry, but it doesn't work in bad weather (which is common here). I then saw an ad for shoe-fresh (a dry rack/sanitizer for your shoes), I got one, and it has completely solved this problem. Maybe I could have found about it in a different way, but this is how I found it.
- XCSme 2y agoAnother example is computer games. I got No Man's Sky recently because it was discounted on Steam, and I always wanted to try it. I would consider the pop-up you get when you launch steam, and the discounts showed in the store to also be "ads". I am enjoying the (still buggy) game so far.
- int_19h 2y agoIf you want to buy a specific Steam game on discount, you can just add it to watchlist and get a notification when it has one. If you want to buy some random games because they are discounted, you can just go to the corresponding section in the Steam store. The point of the popup is to distract you from whatever you're doing right now to get you to make an impulse purchase, as opposed to a well-researched one. That's exactly how people end up with Steam accounts that have literally hundreds of never-played games in them.