Re:Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely
by rawtxapp on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:11PM
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If you look at it from the perspective that ad-clicking has funded the biggest information retrieval system and the biggest human connection platform, yes it was overall socially beneficial.
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Re:Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely
by zepto on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:24PM
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A counterfactual is that those two things would have happened anyway, and the ad-funded model has deeply corrupted both of them.
Re:Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely
by rawtxapp on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:57PM
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I don't think there's world with these counterfactuals in place, do you have any proof?