Comment on A Novel Approach to Yotube Ads
Womble@lemmy.world 7 months agoIt would work the way the internet worked before google monetised monitoring everyone to sell ads, people who want a website paying to host it, and if they are a company charge for whatever they are selling.
SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 7 months ago
You mean the ads on the side of the screen that told you to play some interactive game in them so they could install malware? Ads of some form were always a thing on the internet, first in forum posts then to website ads then Google started essentially buying ad space on other websites, and paid you for it. I hate Google but when that first came out at least most ads weren’t filled with malware at that point.
Womble@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes ads have always existed in some areas of the internet but weren’t central to the entire thing, they were more usually a way of earning a tiny bit extra on the side.
SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 7 months ago
Sure but it’s not like it was all sunshine and roses either, there were more frequent malicious ads but then again maybe those who are brain dead clicking everything in site (pun intended) should get blocked from the internet with a ransom attack encrypting their drive lmaoo