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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @07:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @07:14PM (#601112)

    Can someone explain how it is that he, and other members of the present political party in the majority, are able to legally do what they are doing without having the appropriate public discussions and comment periods, etc?

    While he has indeed been appointed, and that our democracy works as a democratic republic in that we vote for people that represent our interests. Corporations do not vote and their interests in how the Internet should be governed should only have a small influence as to how the Internet (at least in the US) is to be governed.

    He's acting with imputiny and will get away with a lot. It will take years and years and years to undo the damage that this guy can allow to happen, and he'll laugh all the way to the bank. It doesn't matter if he loses his job later; he'll be filthy rich by then and won't want to work anymore anyway. He won't have to; not unless someone finds dirt on him or something. And that is a poor outcome; people should not have to dig to see just how dirty the guy and his deal is.

    People have expressed their opinions and he's ignoring it, and it doesn't seem like there's a lot that can be done about it by playing by the rules.

    It's like what lord Dark Helmet said -- Evil will win because Good is dumb.