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Big Tech turn all of that crap into profit no matter what. It has taken mass-consumerism and general public conformity to 11. By removing any chance of nuance, it makes all of the audience to be bucketed into 'pass/filter' algorithms, and the only concern is to make sure that the content is so bland and innocuous that no one within their bubble reach can complain about it. By having no regard for quality, it's a tragedy of the commons. It has turned even the most reputable of media channels into tabloids. It treats everyone as 'eyeballs', removing any need for a content producer to care about quality. The ad-funded economy is one of the main contributors to the destruction of the fabric of our communities.Īd-funded business models make it impossible for the people to 'vote with their wallets', so all of the good things about any kind of market dynamics are removed, and we are left only with its disadvantages. The problem is in the 'ad-funded' business models. If I have an idea for a product/service that will only work in that setting it will not even go on my list. At this point I learned what a crooked business this is and I swore that I will never make an ad-sponsored app again. Then I was blocked by Admob for whatever reason.

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Also I am the customer and can demand certain things, whereas with a free service I can demand nothing and I am not the customer.Īs a student I made a few small Android games with ads. They also tend to be longer-lasting than many ad-sponsored services. I personally would not be sad if the whole ad industry became less significant and we had more paid services. These days I don't even bother watching channels with ads.

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But in the same spirit I always turned down volume or switched channel on TV when ads were on. Sure it's nothing new that companies try to show you ads. (Actually, the example with the printer was when I was living with my parents, so it was actually my dad who bought the printer after I pointed out it existed, and after he evaluated the price taking the ink into account.)Īs a consumer you should ask yourself: do the ads provide any benefit to me? And if there is none, you should just block the them. I really do not buy many things, if your concern is that ads would compel me to buy too many things, in like, a consumerist way. Like, I suppose if every time I thought “I wish there was a product such the ”, I put a description of that into a web form (in terms of keywords I guess?) and then when a product was released, the company releasing the product could send info to the company running the website demonstrating the novel properties, and then the website could notify all the people whose descriptions appeared to match, and that could be an alternative to ads? It mostly just changed which printer got purchased. I don’t see how this is not a benefit? It isn’t like I otherwise wouldn’t be using a printer, or like it increased average rate of printer purchasing non-negligibly. (As it happened the printer had some unfortunate bugs where it semi-frequently needs to be forcibly rebooted by unplugging it, but it is otherwise seems to work nice.) Like, I previously had thought “it is bad that printers basically all have drm-ish ink cartridges.” When I saw an ad for a printer which instead had refillable ink tanks, I regarded that as an improvement. You see a potential for dissatisfaction, I see a potential for opportunity.Īlso, allocating time for “searching for products that I don’t know of but which seems like they might exist, which would improve things” seems, slow an inefficient? Websites and advertisers should work together to create actually acceptable ads rather than trying to bribe adblockers and hope users don't notice. Web advertising's abysmal reputation isn't some freak accident.

> generating enough revenue as an organization to build/maintain ad whitelistsĪd whitelists that generate revenue essentially always have a conflict of interest. Believe it or not I do whitelist some websites with what I consider acceptable ads, but I do not and will never use an ad whitelist. I, the user, choose what is acceptable in my browser, not a for-profit company that benefits from bribes to whitelist ads. > what do you think is a better way of defining acceptable ad standards I don't care about via what mechanism advertisers improve their ads - that is their job to worry about not mine.

making them less intrusive/obnoxious/annoying)? > So even if you find the model icky, it's also 'improving' the overall quality of ads (i.e. Skimming the first page of that 'independent' committee's bylaws: they self describe as being 'hosted by eeyeo' (the developer of AB+). > technically an independent entity gets to determine what's 'acceptable' I (and 99% of other users) spend the majority of my time on the internet on websites large enough to meet the threshold. you have to reach some threshold before you have to start paying AB+ to whitelist you