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I'm increasingly of the mind that:

1. Advertising is the problem.

It's creating technical problems. It's creating UI/UX problems. It's creating gobs of crap content. It's creating massive privacy intrusions and security risks. And for what? Buzzfeed?

2. Ultimately, the problem is the business model for compensating informational goods. Absent some alternative mechanism (broadband tax, federal income tax applied to creative works), I don't see this changing much.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=broadband+tax&...

3. Micropayments aren't the solution.

http://szabo.best.vwh.net/micropayments.html



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