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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by tsimionescu on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:18AM (#20785585)
> Tons of people paid for content before the Web. Newspapers, magazines, books, CDs, DVDs, cable TV, premium channels.

Sure, but newspapers, magazines, cable TV and premium channels have never really lived off of customer payments, they were always ad-based businesses first (there are exceptions, such as small newspapers and HBO).

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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by neilv on Saturday August 24, 2019 @07:22PM (#20790319)
Digital technology changes some of the economics, and perhaps some of the need for advertising revenue. For example, you could sell mostly journalism "content", without the expense of printing and distribution operation.
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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by foobarqwertz on Saturday August 24, 2019 @03:11PM (#20789073)
Exactly. There are tons of good old paper magazines just created cause the target audience, thus ad targeting, is relatively easy to predict.
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