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Online advertisements should be forbidden as a whole. The attention-stealing and engagement-maximising internet with all it horribly effects only exist, due to
by littlecranky67 3mo ago
Online advertisements should be forbidden as a whole. The attention-stealing and engagement-maximising internet with all it horribly effects only exist, due to advertising. And we know that the world without online ads is perfectly possible and livable, since we all lived through 1996.
- amelius 3mo agoYeah, but why don't we ever hear any MEPs talk about it like that?
- philipallstar 3mo agoMEPs want to write rules that mean they get to fine rich US companies. Local advertising might be worse for you overall but you'd have to do more work to get less free money.
- YurgenJurgensen 3mo agoThey buy ads too. It’d adversely affect their campaign budgets. (Sure, it would adversely affect their competitors’ too, but second-order effects are usually too complex for politicians to understand.)
- mc32 3mo agoTrue but the whole “influencer” and “creative” industry would collapse overnight. A few large ones would survive on their patreon income, most would collapse and have to get a real job, if those are still around.
- YurgenJurgensen 3mo ago…and nothing of value would be lost.
- mc32 3mo agoMostly true but there are a few good channels with very practical information for picking up new skills (gardening, woodwork, playing an instrument, etc) as well as looking up troubleshooting information. Those too would be lost. Sure some drag out three minutes into fifteen, but whatever…
- YurgenJurgensen 3mo agoIn the olden days, those people wrote for things we called ‘magazines’. Without infinite free content at people’s fingertips, actually paying for curated content will likely make a comeback.
- mc32 3mo agoIt’s a bit harder to find stuff in a magazine that helps troubleshoot a water pump at night…
- YurgenJurgensen 3mo agoI’m going to shock you, but you can pay for magazine-like content through the Internet right now.
- mrguyorama 3mo agoThat information used to come with the water pump
- mc32 3mo agoHow many people keep those docs around? It’s also easier to search on YT than rifle though the pump manual which may include all failure modes…
- justapassenger 3mo agoYou do realize that sponsored stories aren’t modern invention? Magazines were full of it too, sometimes disclosed, most often not.
- eleventen 3mo agoThis is a wild take. Most serious media companies would collapse without online ad revenue. Google would be dead, along with all the products that sorta run the world like maps. But even local publications, like your independent city news site, which you presumably think is good, also die instantly. The ladder is also pulled up behind any kind of independent quality content producers. You cant run a successful channel without dedicated paid subscribers, and you can't build a dedicated subscriber base without years of work and supplementing your income with ads, so basically everything with an online audience also dies.
- verisimi 3mo agoOh no, would Google and Meta be dead? How will we manage?!
- clickety_clack 3mo agoWhy do you think podcasters give you recommendations for mattresses?
- rcMgD2BwE72F 3mo ago[flagged]
- amelius 3mo agoDid you not read: > And we know that the world without online ads is perfectly possible and livable, since we all lived through 1996. We're in an information crisis. Most people don't know what is true or false anymore. Google and Meta didn't make it better and in fact might have contributed to it. I'd say let's go back to 1996.
- twoodfin 3mo agoReal household median income in the US has risen by more than 25% since 1996, largely driven by technology built for and by the ecosystem you want to pull out by the roots. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N That would be a staggering cut to everyone’s standard of living.