We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with the Better Ads Standards

Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by dredmorbius on Friday June 02, 2017 @08:19PM (#14474169)

Treat information as the public good it is.

Pay those who create it.

Allow free access to public information.

The entire advertising market worldwide is $600 billion, which works out to roughly $600 per man, woman, and child among the 1 billion inhabitants of the US, EU, Japan, CA, AU, and NZ. (Or OECD states, if you prefer, or G-7.)

Total media spend (print) is on the order of $200/year. Cable + broadband on the order of $1500 - $3000 per year (content and connectivity).

Seems to me there's some streamlining potential possible.

Piecework is actually a tremendous distraction.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modes...

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by tabeth on Friday June 02, 2017 @08:28PM (#14474216)

i'm interested to know why you think information is a public good (implying free to access and consume). surely you can't actually believe that.

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by dredmorbius on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:47PM (#14474505)

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/japan/japan.h...

http://s1.downloadmienphi.net/file/downloadfile6/151/1384343...

J. Stiglitz's essay on p. 308.

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by smichel17 on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:36PM (#14474693)

> surely you can't actually believe that

Not the grandparent poster, but I would have preferred if you'd either ommitted this part or provided some justification for why you feel it isn't a ~~public~~ non-rivalrous good.

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by tabeth on Saturday June 03, 2017 @08:44AM (#14476144)

I defined public information as having the property of: free access. I don't believe information inherently is public for the same reason I believe in privacy.

is there public information? sure. there's also private information.

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by dredmorbius on Saturday June 03, 2017 @11:33AM (#14476847)

"Public good" has a specific definition in an economic context.

The definition you are using is not that.

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Re:We plan to have Chrome hide ads that do not comply with t... by dredmorbius on Saturday June 03, 2017 @08:35AM (#14476109)

I am the GP poster.

Quite this.

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