And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

  • @[email protected]English
    10•9 months ago

    And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

    Start paying for stuff. Subscriptions, etc.

    • @[email protected]
      19•9 months ago

      Great, so now we get to pay for the privilege of having our data harvested by 814 “partners”

      Remember: “if you aren’t paying for the product then you are the product” is no longer accurate, you’re the product regardless of paying or not now.

      • @frostwhitewolf
        7•9 months ago

        Why just make money from subscription fees when you can make EVEN MORE money by serving adds as well?

        I’m just happy that I got to see the glory days of the digital world before advertising moved in.

      • @MIDItheKID
        5•9 months ago

        Yup. Just how cable TV started as “you pay extra for it, but you don’t get any ads!” and then when they realized they had everybody hooked, they started showing ads.

        Same thing with streaming services. Pay money for a service with no Ads. Oh what’s that? Now that they realize they are your primary source of content, they are going to turn ads on unless you pay extra? Boom, gottem.

      • @[email protected]
        2•9 months ago

        Paying for a service is generally going to result in less of a push to monetize the data though, especially if it’s a smaller provider or a private company.

        We can’t just give up and stick with ad supported services, but then not want to see ads… Ad-supported services are always going to have to try monetize you somehow, whereas paid services don’t always need to.