having to pay for quality content => bad (gee, who pays for NYT or WP after they're put behind a paywall?)
Getting the best ads possible without any human involvement => good
discovering the best products & services => good
microtargeting => bad
getting manipulated through political ads => bad
Look, ads ecosystem is the sponsor of free internet. Internet behind a paywall is very low utility. If anything, today's big ad tech are great democratizers & sponsors of the free web. That is, only if they can do the "good" and avoid the "bad".
> Look, ads ecosystem is the sponsor of free internet.
They are the sponsors of the shitty part of internet. They usually lead to the creation of crap articles and websites that use SEO to grab and resell traffic.
I think that even without ad revenue enough people are willing to put quality content online that we don't need to fear. There are more reasons that making ad money to create content.
Getting your data sold to a data broker => bad
free web sites & internet => good
having to pay for quality content => bad (gee, who pays for NYT or WP after they're put behind a paywall?)
Getting the best ads possible without any human involvement => good
discovering the best products & services => good
microtargeting => bad
getting manipulated through political ads => bad
Look, ads ecosystem is the sponsor of free internet. Internet behind a paywall is very low utility. If anything, today's big ad tech are great democratizers & sponsors of the free web. That is, only if they can do the "good" and avoid the "bad".
Disclaimer: I work for an adtech company.