Just below the title in the article: "New iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra will stop ads following Safari users, prompting open letter claiming Apple is destroying internet’s economic model"
I would love to blow up the ad-revenue economic model of the internet. Sure some of the services it funds are convenient but the cost is pretty high. Just a few of these "costs" in my mind:
- Keeping people in a constantly mentally distracted state with various app notifications in order to serve them more ads
- Degredation of political discourse in a race to the rhetorical bottom because that approach appears to generate the most views and thus ad revenue
- More efficient sorting of people into tribal camps of group think. All as a consequence of content which agrees with their worldview because this content generates more ad revenue.
- Fundamental lack of control by users of their personal information as collected by these ad services
I don't know what would replace the ad model, but I'd be happy to find out.
I would love to blow up the ad-revenue economic model of the internet. Sure some of the services it funds are convenient but the cost is pretty high. Just a few of these "costs" in my mind:
- Keeping people in a constantly mentally distracted state with various app notifications in order to serve them more ads
- Degredation of political discourse in a race to the rhetorical bottom because that approach appears to generate the most views and thus ad revenue
- More efficient sorting of people into tribal camps of group think. All as a consequence of content which agrees with their worldview because this content generates more ad revenue.
- Fundamental lack of control by users of their personal information as collected by these ad services
I don't know what would replace the ad model, but I'd be happy to find out.