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Re:The Age of PageRank Is Over by matheusmoreira on Thursday November 10, 2022 @12:49AM (#33542772)
> This is why tech companies keep pivoting to ads

The reason they advertise is because they can. It doesn't matter how much money they're making now, they can always make more by advertising. Paying money just makes your attention more valuable. The only way to stop them is to make it impossible or illegal to advertise. Blocking ads everywhere and making no exceptions.

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Re:The Age of PageRank Is Over by wardedVibe on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:10AM (#33543226)
When google started, they were having difficulty staying solvent until they added ads, even though they had a better product than the other search engines. Its a space that's ill-suited to market solutions.
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Re:The Age of PageRank Is Over by matheusmoreira on Friday November 11, 2022 @06:49AM (#33559576)
If their solution to insolvency is advertising, then let them be insolvent. We're not gonna keep enabling this behavior.
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