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Rumor has it that some people saw the "ads pay for it all" business model and accepted the deal because they wanted the Internet to be sustainable.
by erikerikson 1y ago
Rumor has it that some people saw the "ads pay for it all" business model and accepted the deal because they wanted the Internet to be sustainable.
- ceejayoz 1y agoI mean, that's a two-sided deal. "You watch ads, you read content". But that deal has been more and more broken by the ad networks and websites; a lot of sites are unnavigable without an adblocker now. The days of plain text Google AdWords are long, long gone.
- XorNot 1y agoIf you don't actually buy anything then you're not sponsoring anything. In fact generating ad views and not purchasing things from them reduces the value of ads to the website.
- slg 1y agoYour logic is built on the common misconception that the only ad that has any value is the last ad you see before purchase.