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True but at the same time entire businesses are built on advertising and wouldn't exist without it. All your favorite YouTubers, virtually all internet published media, etc.
Well too bad for the advertisers cause I don’t see any of what they’re spending money on
Your business model is not my problem.
Especially when plenty of profitable services add this shit anyway.
Your problem is, as I stated, that they no longer exist.
I'm old enough to remember when network television didn't cut important scenes from shows in order to show me commercials.
If these businesses are getting so much efficiency from laying off their employees, why do they need increasingly more advertising?
I doubt there are enough of us who block (when it is even possible) to seriously affect revenue.
Also, if they can break their contract with me to pay for a service with no commercials and force me to watch them anyway, I have no compunctions with denying them the extra profit.
That's all entirely dependent on what business you're referring to.
Oh no
Anyway
HaHa
If they can’t exist without ads then it’s time to die
Great, wave goodbye to all your favorite publications.
Bad take. There's also subscription models for example. Or grants or donation / donor based.
Bad take. Those are simply not sustainable in most cases on their own. They just subsidize other revenue models.
Oh no!
OH YEAH
Such a small share of ad-revenue goes to creators it's not worth it. You lose in wasting time, getting your brain turned to mush and getting manipulated by the ads. It costs less to support the creators directly.
I just wish there were easier ways to do so. Something decentralised with all the creators where I could fix an amount per month to spend on content creation and getting it split between what I appreciated.
Uhhhh I mean there are lots and lots of people doing it every day, so it very clearly absolutely is worth it for them.
That's great but it's not sustainable.
Don’t forget; sports events. Even the Olympics don’t exist without ads. Adds rule the world (unfortunately). It gets problematic when your privacy gets compromised.
Sporting events existed for thousands of years before advertising—don’t mistake current conditions for necessary ones.
Yeah.. The classical "it has always been like that" when "always" means "in the past 10y". What is 10y compared to the thousands of years we existed as a society?
Sports would be better without ads. Less money in the industry, less corruption, less over paid players, less private jets. More passion.
My husband was watching old basketball games a few weeks back, even as late as 2004, and the differences in advertising is wild, as in, its not present in the older games we grew up with.
Hell, I tuned into the Rocket Leauge tournament recently, and shut if off as soon as I saw progressive insurance on the ball. You can't escape it.
And yet the (modern) Olympics existed for decades without ads. You’ve been tricked into thinking they’re necessary. They are not. Life would exist just fine without them.
I watched the Superbowl on a Sky Sports stream from the UK. No ads, they just cut to talking to people on the field.
You. Lucky you!