Comment by Aeolun
2 months ago
I think the article mentions banning “sold advertising”, which seems like a fair way to go about it. You can still advertise your own stuff, but you cannot pay a marketplace to do it for you any more. Advertising would by necessity become a lot more local.
How would I advertise my app? Or my TV brand?
Post it on your windowsill? Have it show up in the search results or ‘new apps’ list on the App Store?
TV brands can be set up in a department store? Like we’ve done for ages?
Reputable review sites are better than random advertisements
How do those sites make money if advertising doesn’t exist?
A major challenge in journalism is because of the collapse in value of banner ads. No one but the very largest newspapers have sustainable businesses in the United States and they only do because of the critical mass they have reached with subscribers.
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Do such things exist? I am pretty sure that any review site today has many "inorganic" reviews on them, and products recommended just because vendor paid more.
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Then they can't be free, consumers need to pay for them.
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Except that reviews are ads...
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You spam forums, send emails and abuse any free resources you can find. If you can find them, that is, because without ad revenue they would be closing pretty quickly.
It'd be a very different world, I anticipate a lot of paywalls and secret deals.