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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:21AM (#82893)

    The Green Site's beta program was the LAST straw for me and I found my way here.

    Thanks, NCcommander! :D

    If you HAVE to 'sell out' to keep SN going, please read this first:

    http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=3447&cid=82880 [soylentnews.org]

    If you have to 'sell out' FOR REAL as /. did years ago, SN faces the similar fate of its users leaving for another site elsewhere on the internet like SN is RIGHT NOW at the time of this post....