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Do you want to click through and spend money on the ads? If not you aren't really working towards them paying a lot for ads, right?
by nemomarx 5mo ago
Do you want to click through and spend money on the ads?
If not you aren't really working towards them paying a lot for ads, right?
- gruez 5mo ago>Do you want to click through and spend money on the ads? Nobody "wants" ads, but they do want the free content they get today, which are funded by ads.
- curtisblaine 5mo agoNobody asked for free content. It was pushed on us so they could track us. Before the Internet, you normally paid for what you consumed (at least, more than now. And before that even more).
- cm2012 5mo agoNewspapers, network tv, etc has been subsidized by ads for 100 years+
- curtisblaine 5mo agoAnd for the most part of this time period they weren't free.
- Ajedi32 5mo agoMaybe? Depends on what the ads are for. Obviously I'm not going to buy something I don't actually want just to support the site I'm on, but I have no particular objection to buying something I discovered through an ad if it's something I would buy anyway if I discovered it organically.
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