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Advertising: the Internet's Original Sin

posted by LaminatorX on Monday August 18 2014, @11:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the TV-ate-the-apple dept.

germanbird writes:

The Atlantic has posted an interesting article on internet advertising calling it The Internet's Original Sin. Written by Ethan Zuckerman, who worked at Tripod during the birth of online ads, the article does a good job identifying the issues with relying on ads as the primary source of funding behind the internet. Ethan also speculates on some possible solutions to the problem—which mostly lean toward subscriptions as funding.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by cafebabe on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:23AM

    by cafebabe (894) on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:23AM (#82860) Journal

    only people who worship Satan and bathe in the blood of the virgin babies they've sacrificed after raping them want to force communism on everyone.

    Dammit! Have I been pushing communism without doing the fun stuff?

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