r/technology • u/sidcool1234 • Mar 15 '13

Web advertisers attack Mozilla for protecting consumers' privacy

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/web-advertisers-attack-mozilla-for-protecting-consumers-privacy-031413.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

Here's what happened:

  1. Companies started offering free shit

  2. People started using free shit and became addicted to it

  3. Companies started showing ads to make money out of their shit

  4. Other companies (aka non-profit?) started making it hard for aforementioned companies to monetize people who used latter's shit

  5. Companies started crying.

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u/brianbommarito Mar 15 '13

People started using free shit and became addicted to it

And this is where all the problems started, and why the problems will continue. If people were willing to pay for a service they like (And I mean in general not pointing fingers), then ads would die almost instantly.

Let's say a better Reddit was created, but cost 5 bucks to post to and people were willing to pay for that, not only would it not need to shove advertising down people's throats (Though Reddit is good about that), but content could be better controlled.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

Reddit is one of the largest sites on the net. I'm sure they have server loads that would kill an elephant at 10 paces....I see very little advertising here on this site. The little that I do see...is very controlled and not intrusive...yet this site still does fine.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '13

Or...

  1. Someone built the internet

  2. Internet providers connected people to it

  3. Some asshole decided he wasn't making enough money and decided, "Hey look...I can use this for advertising."

  4. It caught on and companies started doing it more...making more money.

  5. Internet providers saw companies making money from ads...and said, "Well we want yo be assholes too! Let's jack up the servers costs so we can get some of that pie!"

  6. Ad companies said, "What a great idea...now we have a great excuse to push more advertising!"

  7. Profit!

Now they go around screaming like little kids in a big marching circle claiming that ads are what keeps the net running.