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I think quality of the conversation will always trump "privacy, openness and ad-free". We have to pay for quality. If we're not going to pay with dollar bills,
by kevinali1 7y ago
I think quality of the conversation will always trump "privacy, openness and ad-free".
We have to pay for quality. If we're not going to pay with dollar bills, we pay with privacy.
- cies 7y agoUntil you are like in HK and need to organize yourselves for some reason. > If we're not going to pay with dollar bills, we pay with privacy. Paying with ads is also possible.
- WhompingWindows 7y agoBut if you pay with ads, don't you need to see a LOT of ads, unless your privacy is compromised and they use trackers about you to give you targeted (i.e. more lucrative) ads?
- cies 7y agoI'm not sure what it costs to have a service running and what non-tracking adds may yield nowadays. So: not sure.
- Karunamon 7y agoI don't see why topic-based ads based entirely on on-site participation would be a problem. No need for any user-hostile garbage, bucket your communities into topics, and let advertisers target the topics or the intersections between them. Ads are sold on-site, not via third party networks. Reddit does this, but no idea how successful it is.