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> Adblocking will lead to content creators finding a better revenue source; Is this true though? If you throw a child into the water and thereby force them to
by afarrell 11y ago
> Adblocking will lead to content creators finding a better revenue source;
Is this true though? If you throw a child into the water and thereby force them to either sink or swim, it does not actually force them to swim.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 11y agoIt's not going to change over night, but neither did music.
- afarrell 11y agoIs music better for mundane artists to be able to make a living now than it was in the 90s?
- bsbechtel 11y agoHorrible analogy, but a percentage will, and a percentage will sink.
- eli 11y agoSo far that hasn't been the case for newspapers, which have never really recovered from the decline in ad rates over the past few decades. Many smaller papers have gone out of business. Larger ones have cut back on expensive foreign correspondents and beat reporters.
- malandrew 11y agoIf you throw a bunch of children into the water and thereby force them to either sink or swim, those that know how to swim will and those that don't will sink. This will filter out those that can't produce content that people are willing to pay for. Hopefully this will kill low quality content. Those producing high-quality valuable content will be recognized by those that know how to make money from quality content those partnerships will be the ones that learn to swim. Advertising supported content has increased the noise and drowned out the quality. It will be nice to once again hear more of the people with something worth saying.
- asddubs 11y agogoodbye, niche content
- Karunamon 11y agoSounds like a great way for extremely specialized, niche content to die.
- malandrew 11y agoMost of the extremely specialized niche content I enjoy is written by people who write about things because they like to write about things they care about regardless of revenue. For those that need to get paid, if their content is worth it, they will be able to charge.
- afarrell 11y ago> Those producing high-quality valuable content will be recognized by those that know how to make money from quality content those partnerships will be the ones that learn to swim. And they will be constantly fighting against those who know how to write software to get access to the content without paying.
- mercer 11y agoThe crucial difference is that this is not a child but more like a robot specifically designed to operate in a certain way for profit. Sadly this robot cannot swim, and its owners are scrambling to make swimming illegal, keeping their robot afloat with ugly floaters, or <insert other analogy>. Meanwhile, if we were to let the robot sink to the bottom, the actual creators of the robot, who have a passion for robotics, will find ways to create a robot that swims, and will love doing it. Might it hurt them in the short run? Yes, and I'm all for working hard at solutions to that problem (basic income perhaps? But that's a whole other issue). But in the long run these creators can and have found ways around these problems. We see some of this in music and gaming, and it's already happening in 'publishing' (individual journalists and writers finding ways to get profit/donations, blendle.com, certain paywalled publications, etc.) But I for one am tired of working hard at a beautiful site for an 'owner' and then working even harder at turning the end result into a slow, ad-infested, privacy-invading mess. The sooner that solutions are 'forced' into existence, the more likely it will be that I can build profitable things that are not crap. And I've spoken to many journalists and musicians who feel the same way.