Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us'

Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us' by layer8 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:30PM (#35123162)

> People made content because they wanted to, and it was generally better quality than the corporate blogspam we have now.

People can still do that, and many still do. Possibly more do now than back then, in absolute numbers. The problem is search and discoverability, because of all the other, ad-driven content, and ad-driven search. More people would choose to not publish on ad-driven platforms if the alternatives (e.g. personal websites) would get them the same or better reach.

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Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us' by pixl97 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:38PM (#35123306)

Also to add, when people made their own content, maybe a few 100,000 saw it. For the most part the ISP bill was something they could pay.

But if I made a video and suddenly a billion people view it I could be bankrupted.

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Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us' by layer8 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:57PM (#35123632)

Usually your throughput just gets throttled once you’ve reached your bandwidth limit.

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