Comment by raw_anon_1111
2 days ago
Everyone says “advertise!” Like it’s a magic bullet. The tech industry is littered with companies that have high traffic and couldn’t figure out how to monetize via advertising. Yahoo being the canonical example.
Besides the cost of serving an LLM request - using someone else’s infrastructure and someone else’s search engine is magnitudes higher than a Google search.
Besides defaults matter. Google is the default search engine for every mobile phone outside of China and the three browsers with the most market share
> Everyone says “advertise!” Like it’s a magic bullet. The tech industry is littered with companies that have high traffic and couldn’t figure out how to monetize via advertising. Yahoo being the canonical example.
That is obviously because they can't figure out any other value of the product that's sellable.
Ads per se aren’t necessarily a problem. It’s good to be able to discover companies et products. The problem is bad ads, ads that lie, ads for fake products or unfair ads. Also, too much ads is also a problem
Ads make the user experience worse. I don’t use any ad supported products - unfortunately outside of LinkedIn.
I 1000% agree with you. Companies are unreasonable and it kills the UX in a majority of cases. That makes us hate ads