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Or we can acknowledge that advertisment is there to stay and we instead develop a proper framework to make it work sanely rather than all the duct-taping we've done so far.
The real failure is the unwillingness to confront the fact that ads were there to stay and should have been baked into a W3C standard ages ago instead but here we are.
Or are we going to talk about how online advertising has been the economic backbone of the web? Not that I'm advocating for it, by hiding the true cost of things, publishers have brought this onto themselves really.
So no more ads? That's probably going to kill a lot of sites, whether they are contributing anything to mankind or not.
Mumble on the other hand tends to be pretty reliable and comes back up in a few seconds anyway whenever it fails.
Discord having the slack-like features, video streaming and social networking integrated in a nice UI makes it a better all purpose consummer product unfortunately.
Also reminds me of Barjavel's 'The ice people' which has a large golden sphere buried deep under the ice in Antarctica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjavel_novel...
Turns out that it's best to ignore how the sausage is made.
I can definitely empathise with his mindset, especially after many years in the city. Though being from a culinary-centered culture, the one size fits all meal is really depressing to think about, especially that he probably can get some really good produce from people in his network.
Being a farmer is really something different and here in Western Europe (I'm going to assume there's not that much difference between UK and FR farming cultures), it's really a labour of love.
I've been lucky to have some exposure to this world through my family and people often have the wrong perception of it and quite often looked down upon by people that should know better.
Advertising is throwing darts at the board with your eyes closed, whenever it lands somewhere on the board and nets you point is good enough for most.
Typical conversion rates are under the 1% threshold so you accept that a lot of your spend is not efficient but when it is, you make your money back and some, if you are any good at it.
Definitely highlights something I've always felt, which is that we're really making life complicated with all those tools and processes that are less than ideal.
I get the feeling business and the need to "ship" stuff is the thing really bringing technology down, even though it looks like it's moving it forward.
On top of that, plenty of marketers are absolutely clueless about how to go about their strategy, mostly because unlike previous generations (in online ads), they don't grok the underlying tech at all.
Not an internet business per say, mostly used in the context of processing and storing data + internal apps.
Do is great value, although not the cheapest. They need to double down on the useful items, maybe go a bit offroad in what they offer, lest they might be a in rough spot.
Have to admire the dedication you've put into that. Us casual line-riders spent a few hours at best and moved on onto the next shiny thing and there's there people like you that went above and beyond. A labour of love.
Proof that you can't buy taste. For everything else, obviously there's Mastercard.
One of the main reason the big players dominate the Web (in the marketing space) so much is because SaaS is easier to handle (for most people) than having to deploy and maintain your infra.
if you streamline the process so that your regular SMB can build their digital infrastructure and maintain their private data clouds, it would go a long way to help us all with privacy.
A suite of open-source / on premise license one stop shop.
2) As a consequence of #1 (all those Google Analytics install collecting data) and their properties (YT, Search, etc...) they have excellent data on pretty much every one.
As a matter of fact, someone in the industry made a test on Grindr to see what kind of audience quality each player had in the adtech world. Google was the best provider and by a large margin.
Spin up a cheap instance (DO has a preconfigured image ready to go), git pull and caprover deploy to test. I am pretty sure even the cheapest ones will be able to run that.
And even though your points are right, I am not sure those providers should charge as much. It's killing the golden goose in the long term, especially now.
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/creativetech_tensorflowjs-bod...
If you outright ban ads, they'll come back in a sneaky way, see influencer marketing / product placement in culture (movies mostly) for how it plays out.
It also prevents smaller businesses to compete with the larger ones because the larger ones have much more clout and branding power.
Not that it makes ads perfect, far from it. But at least ads are transparent unlike all the astro-turfing there is out there.
Not that I can blame the EU because I'm pretty sure it couldn't have done (as in imposed) anything there and it clearly highlights the deficiencies of being somewhere in the middle.
It was a litmus test and it's pretty obvious that we need to take it further rather than competing with each other.
Good. May they collapse swiftly.
Or am I asking for trouble?
Had to go back to my less than stellar family for a year and a half, all of us surviving on the struggling family business while slaving away pretty much all the time.
Got a way out to move to Belfast and build a career slowly moving up from shit job to less shit job.
While lots of it has sucked, in hindsight it was the best thing that happened to me.
So you know, there might be a silver lining, maybe it's even platinum but you can't even tell yet.
The cost benefit analysis part reminds me a lot of some of the comments you see here (and elsewhere) with regards to Covid-19 and the economic shutdown of societies. Quite timely.