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Advertising: the Internet's Original Sin

posted by LaminatorX on Monday August 18 2014, @11:22PM   
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.

• Is that true for all media? Is that true for all media? (Score: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Tuesday August 19 2014, @02:50AM

  by krishnoid (1156) on Tuesday August 19 2014, @02:50AM (#82875)

  Would this be the case for newspapers, magazines, or television as well? Or did the situation for those media differ?

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• Re:Is that true for all media? (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:06AM

  by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:06AM (#82885) Journal

  New media - Advertise - Content is "adapted"

  Sounds familiar somehow. I heard Seattle has the expertise :P

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• Re:Is that true for all media? (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:59AM

  by frojack (1554) on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:59AM (#82904) Journal

  Advertising would have crept into the net regardless of what these early guys did.
  It was inevitable.
  Its already everywhere else, and it was always coming to the net no matter what anyone did.

  I don't see why the guy is singing mea culpa for something that could never be prevented.

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