Much of what you say rings true but ... I think without the incentive of monetization I don’t think we’d see as much good content in places like YouTube.
On the other hand that same carrot brings a lot of baggage like: ads, and lots of crap (content farms and idiotic buzzfeed listicles and cat videos) some idiocy is okay, but we get flooded ...
Re:Brave launches 1.0
by anewguy9000 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:48PM
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holy shit a hacker on hn. i was not sure there were any of us left
The audacity of so many people who feel entitled to get paid makes me so sad. I adblock, strip affiliate links, etc.
Ad revenue drives censorship. Dumbs people down, etc. The whole biz should burn down to the ground.