Re:Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad b...
by fauigerzigerk on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:35PM
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And yet if everything was a pay service we would lose all anonymity and poor people would get locked out of everything.
Doesn't mean advertising is unproblematic. It clearly isn't. But it's not completely one sided either, not even in terms of privacy.
Re:Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad b...
by dredmorbius on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:29PM
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False dichotomy. There are other options.
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modes...
Information is a pure public good. Finance it as such.
Joseph Stiglitz, "Knowledge as a Global Public Good," in Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century, Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg, Marc A. Stern (eds.), United Nations Development Programme, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 308-325.
http://s1.downloadmienphi.net/file/downloadfile6/151/1384343...
Re:Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad b...
by fauigerzigerk on Thursday May 31, 2018 @06:21PM
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>False dichotomy. There are other options.
I didn't say there were no other options. I just criticised the one option we would very likely end up with by default if advertising were to be curbed somehow.
1. It's not free. Advertising is a $600 billion industry annually, with online over a sixth of that. This is largely imposed on the wealthier billion global inhabitants, so figure roughly $600 overall or $100 for Internet, per person, per year, if you live in the EU, US, JP, CA, AU, NZ.
2. Good content goes wanting. Advertising seeks to maximise eyeballs, not content quality. Good sites go wanting: LWN, Linux Journal, Nautilus, just off the top of my head. Markets and information are a poor match.
Unless you omitted a sarcasm tag?