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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, @02:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @02:01PM (#83072)

    That is exactly what I mean.
    Not a tactic that should be used on a whim, because on a large enough scale it could reshape how the internet works. A lot of sites would shut down.
    This is a trade off, because the ones that remain would be less concerned with turning a profit and more concerned with doing what they started out to do.