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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by bfrog on Monday February 12, 2018 @06:09PM (#16363224)
Since its entirely user provided, I don't think its going to ever be.
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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by gervase on Monday February 12, 2018 @06:24PM (#16363329)
Does this imply that user-provided content is fundamentally incompatible with an ad-funded model?

There seems to be massive inertia on both sides: advertisers don't want to be placed next to user-provided content, and users want to pay for content via ad views. I wonder which is easier to change?

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