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[liontwist]

This article appears to be recycling content from a 13 year old top stack overflow question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...

Truly any interesting thing ever created on the internet will be exploited for marketing until the end of time. Unfortunate that old redditors and other forum contributors were not able to capture the millions of dollars of value created from their work.

EDIT: I did see it’s at least referenced at the end.

[hnuser123456 → liontwist]

Marketing? I don't see anything for sale or even any ads on the blog page.

[bhhaskin → hnuser123456]

A ton of blog content is still "marketing" content. Even if it doesn't directly display ads. It's "SEO".

[BeFlatXIII → liontwist]

> Unfortunate that old redditors and other forum contributors were not able to capture the millions of dollars of value created from their work.

It's all down to a lack of viable micropayment infrastructure. See also: ad tech.

[nemomarx → BeFlatXIII]

I think a lot of forum posters wouldn't want to charge micro payments for it though?

[kibwen → BeFlatXIII]

Micropayments exist in apps, and yet that hasn't done anything to stop apps from having both micropayments while also being infested with ads.

It's time to dispense with the myth that micropayments were a missed opportunity for the web. Commercialization enshittified the web, and micropayments would have just accelerated that decline.