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Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads
« on: September 17, 2019, 12:19:19 PM »
Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads, and they have $100M to do it

Grant for the Web, will give roughly $20 million per year for five years to content sites

https://www.fastcompany.com/90403645/mozilla-and-creative-commons-want-to-reimagine-the-internet-without-ads-and-they-have-100m-to-do-it
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Re: Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2019, 12:55:49 PM »
It's interesting to contemplate the effect of 'no ads.' The web would be -what?- only 10% of it's current size without ads. What would be left other than corporate brochureware, affiliate shilling, or narcissistic blogs?
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Re: Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2019, 01:09:47 PM »
>The web would be - what?

Fun again.  heh.
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Re: Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2019, 02:20:12 PM »
Fun again = affiliate shilling  8)
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Re: Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2019, 04:14:29 PM »
Quote from: rcjordan on September 17, 2019, 12:55:49 PM
corporate brochureware, affiliate shilling, or narcissistic blogs?

And scholarly research and government resources and fanatic hobbyist sites.

I would venture to say that perhaps half the sites that I find the most useful and that I would miss the most are already ad-free.

- Dictionnaire de moyen francais, allowing full-text, regular expression searches? No ads
- The Core - no ads ;-)

The big exception - a true replacement for Google that does not have ads.
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Re: Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2019, 04:29:12 PM »
>the sites that I find the most useful and that I would miss the most are already ad-free.

My browser is 99.9% ad-free, due to ripping.  If I use a site frequently, it is 100% ad-free. I would prefer that the heathen masses continue to subsidize the web for me.
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Re: Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2019, 06:00:15 PM »
>Fun again.  heh.

>And scholarly research and government resources and fanatic hobbyist sites.

I'm with you guys.  All the stuff that made me fall in love with the web would still be there -- and it would be easier to find.
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Re: Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2019, 06:28:03 PM »
Without the (often erroneous) idea that ads will monetize the site, subscription models would rule your day.
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Re: Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2019, 08:16:21 AM »
Got me thinking that maybe search engines could run a similar model of paying content-owners, but then if you were to further monetise ranking for something it'd send SEO into steroid mode.
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