I refuse to use the web without adblock but most of the websites (or apps I use) are supported by ads.
I refuse to use the web without adblock but most of the websites (or apps I use) are supported by ads. What do? A few have a "pay to remove ads" option, but most do not, and the ones that do, I use infrequently enough that I can't justify the price. There seems to be no good solution for paying for the "long tail" of content and services. Clay Shirky wrote an essay (I forget which one) on this subject like 20+ years ago, about how the main issue with micro transactions isn't even technical but it's the mental cost associated with each transaction. I think this could be solved if the system were "set it and forget it" -- you give it a weekly budget and it just distributes it among the sites you spend the most time on. Brave browser actually tried something very similar with their BAT (with their own ads instead of user provided funds), but it never caught on.
Posted by andai on Dec 20, 2024, 12:12 AM
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I got tired of the price hikes of the ad free netflix and finally canceled.
>This is pathological.
1) No, but the tracking needed for targeted ads is also behind a consent wall.
The attention economy is real, your eyes have value that is surprisingly high, and buying out that attention so you can have a pure you-c...
> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand That's true, but they care deeply about the consequences of that: > ab...
There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques.
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You can either have AI be honest or AI become a marketing tool.
I refuse to use the web without adblock but most of the websites (or apps I use) are supported by ads.
I refuse to use the web without adblock but most of the websites (or apps I use) are supported by ads. What do? A few have a "pay to remove ads" option, but most do not, and the ones that do, I use infrequently enough that I can't justify the price. There seems to be no good solution for paying for the "long tail" of content and services. Clay Shirky wrote an essay (I forget which one) on this subject like 20+ years ago, about how the main issue with micro transactions isn't even technical but it's the mental cost associated with each transaction. I think this could be solved if the system were "set it and forget it" -- you give it a weekly budget and it just distributes it among the sites you spend the most time on. Brave browser actually tried something very similar with their BAT (with their own ads instead of user provided funds), but it never caught on.
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