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Re:The math’s not pretty on digital advertising’s future rev... by bryanrasmussen on Saturday December 29, 2018 @05:44PM (#18786139)
If the web went back to what it was 20 years ago that would be economically catastrophic, I mean if it happened like nearly instantly, if it happened over a space of 10-15 years OK.
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Re:The math’s not pretty on digital advertising’s future rev... by hedora on Saturday December 29, 2018 @05:56PM (#18786205)
In the context of the quote, let’s ignore non-ad based stuff, like amazon’s shipping network, and online banking.

In what way would resetting the ad based parts 20 years be catastrophic?

Were RSS and semi-curated news portals like yahoo and google news that much worse for publishers? (I thought they were actually better, economically, than FB...)

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Re:The math’s not pretty on digital advertising’s future rev... by bryanrasmussen on Saturday December 29, 2018 @06:35PM (#18786349)
the context of the quote was that the web went back to what it was 20 years ago, ignoring the non-ad based stuff is cherry picking after the fact.
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