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
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?
>The web would be - what?
Fun again. heh.
Fun again = affiliate shilling 8)
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.
>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.
>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.
Without the (often erroneous) idea that ads will monetize the site, subscription models would rule your day.
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.