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Discussion: Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark?

posted by janrinok on Friday November 24 2017, @04:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the it-won't-go-away dept.

canopic jug writes:

Archivist David Rosenthal asks on his blog, Has Web Advertising Jumped The Shark?.

He points out that there are four big problems with Web advertising as it currently exists: The bad guys love it, the readers hate it, the webmasters hate it too, and the advertisers find that it wastes money. He then goes into detail on each point and concludes that not only does everyone involved hate the system, but that it is causing actual harm to society.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by pTamok on Saturday November 25 2017, @07:04PM

    by pTamok (3042) on Saturday November 25 2017, @07:04PM (#601457)

    Without a dominant ad-based revenue stream, no one would have had an interest in developing an open mobile operating system.

    Counter-example: OpenMoko [wikipedia.org]

    I don't think Maemo or MobiLinux were fully open source. Sailfish OS isn't, although I think it has an aim of being open source.

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