Comment on [Australia] Government to overhaul privacy laws, including opting out of advertising, a right to be forgotten, and new rules for small businesses

Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• samson@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not while we live in a capitalist system. Ad personalisation on the other hand…

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• Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think everyone would be surprised how many people would opt in.

  I installed a pihole and not being able to click on ads for 12 hours is the closest my wife has been to divorcing me.

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  • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Say what ?

    Do you know what sort of ads she clicks on most often?

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And how do you propose sites pay for their hosting and staff?

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  • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    With any number of alternative business models.

    It’s unfuriating that people actually believe ads can have some kind of positive impact by creating a revenue stream for content.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And how many of those alternative business models:

      1. Ensure open access to content to anyone, rather than just those with enough disposable income?
      2. Enable support for content at a variety of different consumption patterns, including (a) niche but dedicated audience, (b) large moderately engaged audience, and © very large drive-by audience (i.e., audience of people who might not expect to access content from you ever again, but show up for this one particular popular thing)?

      Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for the option of other revenue streams. Paywalled content has the right to exist, and I pay for some of it myself very happily. So does donation-based content like Patreon and at least some Lemmy instances (including the one I’m on). But advertising works very well, and I have never seen someone suggest an alternative that could ever come close to replacing advertising in terms of the volume and variety of content that is currently available on the Internet.

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      • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’ve pretty much answered your own question - the alternative model is simply no-fee, frictionless, convenient, secure, micro-payments.

        If everyone paid $0.001 to, say, read an article content producers would have a lot more revenue than they do presently. I’m truly loathe to say this as I despise everything about crypto, but this is a problem that crypto could address.

        The only reason this doesn’t exist is because the advertising model is more lucrative for the corporations that built the modern web.

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  • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You could click the link in the OP to find out

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The OP is talking about ad tracking. The comment I replied to suggested ads should be entirely removed.

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      • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, click the link and tell me how many ads you see.

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