It's not just Google, the Internet stops existing.

I know people have rosy eyes for a BBS/IRC comeback, but that will never happen.

By and large, people don't care about having to look at tide and Toyota ads to watch YouTube.

duskdozer 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No it wouldn't.

Your bank, school, doctor, and government would all still have websites. Companies would still sell things online. Video calls and chat systems would be there. All the websites run by donation or self-funding would be unchanged. Without ads, the worst parts of the internet might stop existing though.

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_carbyau_ a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> It's not just Google, the Internet stops existing.

Uh? No?

The internet existed before being overrun by corporate presence. It still does. Advertising pays a lot, but take the ad money away and let it scale accordingly.

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WarmWash a day ago | parent [-]

The worst thing about the modern internet is people's innate expectation that others will work/pay to entertain or inform them for free.

What existed in 1993 was a cultural blip, it's never coming back, so let it go.

	▲	pocksuppet 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There's no expectation. It's like free software. When it exists you can use it. When it doesn't exist you can't demand anyone to make it exist. And yet we still have free software. Not as much any more though as a lot of it changed to open source.
	▲	_carbyau_ 20 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> What existed in 1993 was a cultural blip, it's never coming back, so let it go. Ha! I am under no illusion it is coming back. But even though it flows like the unstoppable tides, ad money is not a requirement.