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Re:Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Si... by stazz1 on Friday December 06, 2019 @06:50PM (#21727286)
I don't read books with ads, I don't watch films with ads, I don't listen to music with ads. One-way broadcast technologies where one suckles at the teat of momma-Media-empire will come with ads because baby cannot help but drink what momma puts into her nutrition. The content model has changed, the internet is a two-way or multiplayer chat, not a one-way broadcast. Advertising has no place on the internet. Advertisements are not a stand-in for content. Human attention is not a commodity. These problems are solvable, but not with steam engines and model Ts. Why wedge a brand new frontier of technology between the rear view mirror of the obsolescence desert and a nearby Tuesday? Surely we can think of something more delightful than indirectly pointing to consumption via thinly veiled business-as-art. As one who adores the study of logo and design, it doesn't make sense to pay someone to make mediocre art to sell me something instead of just using that money to make good art in the first place. There.
Re:Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Si... by betterbeehome on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:07AM (#21728938)
Just so you know, there are plenty of books, films and music with ads. The harder you try to run away from ads, the more you pay to escape them, the harder they'll try to get you to see them and the more they'll pay for it.

That's why I think it's inevitable for Netflix to get ads. Even if it's not a pre-roll ad, it could be just tons of in-content advertisements. Like they do with a lot of movies. Such as Sony movies, plenty of Sony phones, laptop, TVs, speakers, etc.

The only way to get rid of ads from your life, is to become a billionaire that owns a personal city where you can outlaw them yourself. Otherwise, you're screwed.

Re:Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Si... by stinos on Saturday December 07, 2019 @04:25AM (#21729307)
Just so you know, there are plenty of books, films and music with ads

Yes, and also plenty without, so that doesn't prove much I'm afraid.

The harder you try to run away from ads, the more you pay to escape them, the harder they'll try to get you to see them and the more they'll pay for it.

Do you mean this literally, and if so can you give an example? Just asking because I've never experienced anything like this. Or I don't know what you mean.

Re:Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Si... by buboard on Friday December 06, 2019 @06:58PM (#21727339)
people are free to create their own ad-free internet platform. that doesn't mean that they have a right to force this model on everyone. now excuse me, i have to walk my unicorn
Re:Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Si... by stazz1 on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:59PM (#21728183)
I did not mean to be adversarial, I think you brought up some excellent points, and I thank you for the opportunity to organize thought on the matter. Your observation that radio will always have advertisements is unchallengeable, it's only inevitable that there will be a mix of approaches as we go forward.