Alternatively, no ads and we can support it through donations or anti-oligarchy purchases like this shirt.
Ads open up a pandoras box of monetization of user data/traffic/clicks/links/additional engagement, etc.
It’s a dark, dark, dark road, and we’ve been down it dozens of times with tech giants. It never ends well.
Let’s stop having advertising be the way we fund pseudo-free services, and instead just give people options to donate or pay into it some other way. We need to end this reliance on advertising industry for revenue.
Yoga@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Ads are attractive to many users because they have a simple option for universal opt out (adblocking) at the cost of everyone who isn’t a Freerider.
Traister101@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Yes but a lot of us who do block ads block them largely because they are intolerable. I largly only started blocking ads at all because of how utterly miserable YouTube ads became.
Yoga@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Gotta love loading a mobile webpage and 20% of it is readable text and the rest is advertising.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Another reason why they just externalize the cost of the website onto anyone who can’t use an ad blocker or doesn’t know how.