Chop Beta
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Out of context: Reply #9
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- i_monk1
From that horse shit Adage article:
"Without advertising, digital content and services either will vanish, or the cost for their production and distribution will come directly from consumers' wallets."
Someone forgets there was an internet before advertisers discovered it, and plenty of content out there today is not anchored to banner ads of any sort. The early days of ads online, certainly on smaller sites, may have been to help foot the bill, but the industry evolved as a way to profit off people on the web, not to keep Tripod sites online.
- I had to install an addon just to click and select the text from the article. Fuck you, Adage.i_monk
- "We can (and should) contemplate suing unethical ad-blocking profiteers out of business."i_monk
- Just like suing Napster stopped people from downloading, eh? Fucking idiots.i_monk
- "Ads should only load when they're... viewable... Pre-loading ads not in view slows sites down, prioritizing advertising over people's desire to get content"i_monk
- A bit schizo there, Ad Age. We want content without ads. If we don't scroll down, no ad is seen, so what's the difference if it's blocked?i_monk
- There has always been advertising on the web we've used to digest content ala 1996 when not many people were using it like how we use it today.fyoucher1
- So this statement doesn't make any sense.fyoucher1
- No there hasn't, and it's not universal even today.i_monk
- But there has. Banners were around in the mid-90's. Not sure if you were around, but the web was utter shit when everyone had dialup.fyoucher1
- Banner ads circa 1994: http://www.wired.com…ETM
- Most sites weren't Wired.com, and the ad/web ecology of that era is only superficially similar to today's.i_monk