Post #1760168

2026-04-28 15:12 UTC

My modest proposal: we ban indirect monetization. If you get something of value, either it&#39;s a gift or you pay for it directly. So no more ad-supported services, no more selling people&#39;s data, no more things where you are the product.

Replies (4)

@williampietri@sfba.social 2026-04-28 15:12

Would this destroy a lot of existing businesses? Yes. But a lot of them are parasitic, and all of them reward people for becoming cynical manipulators of others. Other businesses would rise in their wake. Healthier ones. Stronger ones.

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@dl2jml@mastodon.radio 2026-04-28 15:15

@williampietri@sfba.social Paraphrasing Coluche: it is such a pity, if only people would stop clicking on the adverts, they would stop using them.

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@RogerBW@discordian.social 2026-04-28 15:51

@williampietri@sfba.social This destroys advertising, so I'm on board.

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@pkal@social.sdfeu.org 2026-04-28 17:08

@williampietri@sfba.social Are there any ideas how to practically legilate something like this, ideally on a global scale, considering that those opposing it will have plenty of resources to do so? IIUC this would be kind of a reversal of the NSFNET decommisioning from 1995, so perhaps the vector of attack here could be DNS again?

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