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Facebook, Gmail, Google, etc., already do this, charging advertisers nickels to blast people using those platforms.
by sogen 11y ago
Facebook, Gmail, Google, etc., already do this, charging advertisers nickels to blast people using those platforms.
- theseatoms 11y agoI would classify Facebook and Google as advertisers themselves, but that's semantics, I guess. Point taken. There are effectively two classes of internet citizens: those who block ads, and those who do not. Users like myself free ride off the eyeballs of this second class. Imagine if ad-blockers were included in internet browsers by default. It would cripple the economics of the internet. (Is this the explicit reason for Chrome? Because it look like a great defensive maneuver.)