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The Supervillain's Guide to Saving the Internet
- dimlyaware 11y agoI mean I understand the point being made. Consumer behavior has changed to the point where the consumer believes that content should be free including editorial content. However to assume that installing Adblock will solve this is naivety as its best. Both sides will continue to one up one another, currently sites are now checking for Adblock and forcing the user to disable said plugin to view the content. Adblock has found a way to block some of these detection scripts. Similar to the demise of the cookie when people were claiming an end to user tracking, instead tracking has become far more powerful since then. I agree the current model is broken and needs a huge change but that change won't occur with Adblock and the outcome of the change is unforeseeable for me. The market will adapt to consumer behavior, which could mean that news no longer is considered a viable business model and becomes something that is community aggregated. It could also spin in the other direction like the author in the article states. I don't know why there is the assumption that once the current model is destroyed that people will just turn around and revert back to the old model.