Post #2266865
2026-04-10 15:27 UTC
@dl2jml@mastodon.radio
But noone minded ads when they were passive. Hell, newspaper pages (beyond page 1) were sometimes 60+% ads; noone objected to this.
Newspapers, radio and TV charged adverstisers based on how many eyeballs/earballs they knew their circulation reached. We need to go back to that model.
I get that this doesn't allow targeted advertisement on a per viewer basis, but now the ads/paywalls are so aggressively intrusive, eyeballs bail entirely. I fail to see how the old way is worse.
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@dl2jml@mastodon.radio 2026-04-10 16:00
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to I am not saying that the old way was worse, quite on the contrary. I am saying that the old way is gone.