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| ▲ | eleventen 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is a wild take. Most serious media companies would collapse without online ad revenue. Google would be dead, along with all the products that sorta run the world like maps. But even local publications, like your independent city news site, which you presumably think is good, also die instantly. The ladder is also pulled up behind any kind of independent quality content producers. You cant run a successful channel without dedicated paid subscribers, and you can't build a dedicated subscriber base without years of work and supplementing your income with ads, so basically everything with an online audience also dies. | | |
| ▲ | amelius 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Did you not read: > And we know that the world without online ads is perfectly possible and livable, since we all lived through 1996. We're in an information crisis. Most people don't know what is true or false anymore. Google and Meta didn't make it better and in fact might have contributed to it. I'd say let's go back to 1996. | |
| ▲ | verisimi 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Oh no, would Google and Meta be dead? How will we manage?! | | |
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| ▲ | amelius 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yeah, but why don't we ever hear any MEPs talk about it like that? | | |
| ▲ | YurgenJurgensen 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They buy ads too. It’d adversely affect their campaign budgets. (Sure, it would adversely affect their competitors’ too, but second-order effects are usually too complex for politicians to understand.) | |
| ▲ | philipallstar 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | MEPs want to write rules that mean they get to fine rich US companies. Local advertising might be worse for you overall but you'd have to do more work to get less free money. |
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| ▲ | mc32 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | True but the whole “influencer” and “creative” industry would collapse overnight. A few large ones would survive on their patreon income, most would collapse and have to get a real job, if those are still around. | | |
| ▲ | YurgenJurgensen 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | …and nothing of value would be lost. | | |
| ▲ | mc32 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Mostly true but there are a few good channels with very practical information for picking up new skills (gardening, woodwork, playing an instrument, etc) as well as looking up troubleshooting information. Those too would be lost. Sure some drag out three minutes into fifteen, but whatever… | | |
| ▲ | YurgenJurgensen 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | In the olden days, those people wrote for things we called ‘magazines’. Without infinite free content at people’s fingertips, actually paying for curated content will likely make a comeback. | | |
| ▲ | Aurornis 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Magazines primarily make money through advertising. Even that “curated” content is often the result of a company’s PR professionals sending free gear for review and possibly wining and dining the writers. | |
| ▲ | mc32 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It’s a bit harder to find stuff in a magazine that helps troubleshoot a water pump at night… | | |
| ▲ | YurgenJurgensen 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I’m going to shock you, but you can pay for magazine-like content through the Internet right now. |
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| ▲ | justapassenger 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You do realize that sponsored stories aren’t modern invention? Magazines were full of it too, sometimes disclosed, most often not. | | |
| ▲ | YurgenJurgensen 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | And? They’d be banned too. | | |
| ▲ | runarberg 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | In fact they were, and perhaps even still are, however regulators have simply stopped enforcing consumer protection laws in the past 20 years. Neo-liberalism reigns supreme and Ronald Regan became the king of Europe. |
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| ▲ | inigyou 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If it's really that good, you'll pay for it with the money you saved in advertising. You're paying for the ads, don't forget. Plenty of people used to pay for things like woodworking classes, back when there was money. Doing a woodworking class in person at a woodworking shop will teach you much better than youtube. |
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