mveew2
Re:Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions
on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:36PM (#16110814)
No free content, no buzzfeed / huffington post / breitbart garbage. Sounds good to me!
If your content is so shitty that nobody would pay to view it, then it's worthless.
Re:Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions
on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:33PM (#16110782)
Yeah but can you quantify exactly how much savings you get for giving up your privacy? If targeted ads lowered the cost of an 8 dollar widget by 10 cents, I think most people would take their privacy.
But we don't know how much online advertising lowers prices. Would be interesting for an economist to study.
For all we know, online ads could have no effect. And what about ads intended to generate demand instead of address current demand? Maybe online ads are tricking us to by more of what we don't want (Yay, another subscription box).