Extend that from “advertisers” to “capitalists” and you’ll be much more correct.
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flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Advertising being allowed to become the dominant monetization method for the internet was a mistake.
I’ve never seen anything that makes most of its money from advertising that doesn’t get worse and worse for it over time as a result. Once you let the advertisers in they will ruin whatever it is they are being allowed to leech off of. Might take 1 year, might take 20, but once they get that foot hold they will run it into the ground because like a billionaire and money, it is never enough.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Two9A@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So I work at DeviantArt, and we actually saw this in real-time. A few years ago, we added external ads all over the place, and had to add a whole framework to detect “ad-unsafe” works that wouldn’t get ads served against them. So we only got ads against a percentage of views, and people were getting pissed at the ads and leaving.
So we tore the ads back out, traffic’s recovered, and a focus on providing actual tools for artists to make money through the site has meant we’re doing better without ads than we were with ads.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
that’s the thing. People will generally support a service they like. If it has ads, most people won’t like it and thus won’t support it.