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Comment by justinclift

4 days ago

> Youtube gonna fail if everyone and I mean everyone suddenly stopped watching ads

Maybe that would be better? :)

Every one of these discussions: “But without ad revenue a bunch of sites might vanish!”

Me: But not internet archive, Wikipedia, or Library Genesis, right? So 90ish% of the Web’s value is safe? Ok sounds good to me, let’s do this.

  • didn't know wikipedia has content creator, last time I check they called themselves "volunteer" while Wikimedia foundation spends money on DEI project

    also why we stop at youtube videos, just pirate the games,steal music and movie etc

    but don't cry when they goes bankrupt and stop releasing new games,movie etc anymore

    we can just generate new art,music,movie,games etc with AI

    after all, tech industries is created just for that

  • This is the core of the faith which communists have. We take everything and give nothing back and then wonder why nobody wants to create anything. Goods and services simply materialize out of thin air. It's a meteorological phenomena really.

    • Other business models are fine. I would support almost any amount of legal push-back on ads, though, and don’t care what happens to ad brokers.

cant expect much from tech bros that want people livelihood disappear

  • Out of context, but since you brought up AI, have you considered using AI to generate well-formed sentences on social media?

    Or do you prefer to burden the reader with the obligation to decipher your vague meaning?

    • Ad hominem on HN? The audience quality is low these days.

      I guess I can't expect much from tech bros who are out of touch with the real world.