Re:Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
by ipaddr on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:28PM
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We will see plenty of high quality stuff still I agree. But much of the free stuff will be about converting you to the paid stuff.
With ads or not you are still the product. You will still be tracked because people want you to spend money on their service. People will sell that information. Companies will use it.
Re:Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
by JohnFen on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:48PM
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Sure, much of it will. But certainly not all of it. The amount of actually free content will certainly not decrease, and it would probably increase, even if by only a little.
> With ads or not you are still the product.
It depends on the site. There are lots of sites where the site operator has no interest in it generating an income, let alone a profit. You are not the product there.
No, it won't. There was plenty of high quality stuff on the internet before ads or payment was even possible, and there's plenty of high quality stuff that don't track you or require payment right now. There's no reason to think that would all evaporate.