I'm even more concerned about the second order effects of so much being driven by driving clicks to ad dollars. This is obviously what causes the attention economy and maybe many of our negative trends in society. How much less attention would BS articles on anti-vax and QAnon nonsense get without all of this? How many fewer content farms that are just trying to waste my time would we have?
I would love to see how an alternative reality without advertisements would look. I'm not sure if we could ever fully accomplish this given that there always will be people willing to pay for eyeballs and people happy to take money or goods to change their messaging.
I would love to see how an alternative reality without advertisements would look. I'm not sure if we could ever fully accomplish this given that there always will be people willing to pay for eyeballs and people happy to take money or goods to change their messaging.