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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent '... by bpicolo on Monday March 12, 2018 @02:44PM (#16570361)
It's clearly not the only business model, it's just been proven time and time again to be a profitable one for certain classes of products.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent '... by zaphar on Monday March 12, 2018 @04:55PM (#16571525)
You can make an argument that it's the only one that succeeds when pitted against the other models in the market. Micropayments have been tried and haven't yet succeeded at the necessary scale. Paywalls have had only very limited success. Ads are the only thing we've so far found that can scale a site to the level of Google or Facebook.

This is both a problem and an opportunity.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent '... by 908087 on Monday March 12, 2018 @08:26PM (#16572899)
> Ads are the only thing we've so far found that can scale a site to the level of Google or Facebook.

That sounds like an argument against the ad model, not for it.

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