@ItsThatDeafGuy @gumnos @dalias I believe (but could be very wrong) that “most” people would happily pay for good enough solutions that don’t have advertising and don’t sell your data to others. That’s how the Internet used to work.
But most successful services get bought out by bigger ones, with shareholders and growth targets. At which point covering your costs stops being the goal
Yeah, I’m cynical. Sue me, #genX
@WiteWulf @ItsThatDeafGuy @gumnos @dalias a slight tangent but too many services conflate tracking with advertising. I might be happy to pay, except I don't trust them not to carry on tracking. Hopefully the fediverse is better than that though :)
@jtonline @WiteWulf @ItsThatDeafGuy @gumnos As far as I'm concerned, any kind of dynamic auctioned advertising ("adtech") is unacceptable regardless of whatever tracking they claim is or isn't happening. Non tracking can't be proven, the ads displayed (without human vetting) necessarily will be full of scams & harmful products, and hate-inciting propaganda can be displayed to secret audiences in ways that can't be caught to incur reputational damage.
The only remotely legitimate ads are fully static ones arranged with a human staffed advertising department responsible for reputational consequences of running garbage ads.