News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
Nowhere is it written that ads are required to lessen a user's experience but here we are.
What solution would you like?
Everything for free?
Where did I say that? Are you actually not old enough to remember non intrusive banner ads?
I am older than the common era of the internet, like before 56k.
I remember them, I also remember never actually looking at them.
They just didn’t work.
I'm on your side here. But I don't look at any ads. If you interrupt what I'm watching with an ad, I stop watching/reading and do something else. If anything an ad will make me less likely to use or otherwise engage with your product. If it's unskippable that effect is inevitable.
The only exception is something I'm already interested in, in which case you've wasted your money advertising to someone redundantly AND my time because I don't want to see your shitty adverts, which risks me losing interest.
Adverts used to work. Now they're so constant and endless that they have the opposite effect for me. I stopped using YouTube a few months ago because of the ads. Can I remember literally a single product that was ever advertised to me on YouTube? No, because their ads can go fuck themselves.
If the marginal cost of reproducing a thing approaches zero, then obviously the appropriate price point is "free". It costs almost nothing to serve a webpage, but if that page is filled with intrusive and potentially malicious adverts then the cost of viewing it is astronomical in comparison. You wouldnt go out in public naked, and nobody should be using the web without adblock.
Wut? To one person maybe, but once you're scaling to delivering that same webpage to hundreds of thousands to millions that cost rises dramatically lmao do you even know how powerful a system needs to be to serve a million requests for the same webpage at the same time?
Even a text only webpage is going to need some good power behind it just to handle the protocol overhead and that's not even covering the infrastructure costs
I manage a system for work that handles tens of thousands of interactions per second during peak season, so yeah I'm intimately aware that the cost per visit scales down near zero with volume (a google search used to cost less than 1/1000 of a cent before they started feeding everything into LLMs).
Plus, ads are responsible for about 2/3rds the cost of serving a page, not to mention the liability when malicious content gets injected into your site by an ad network.
The ad-funded internet was a mistake that enabled the domination of Big Tech. Other financing models like subscriptions or donations are the safe and ethical alternative.
I look forward to the day I run into a Lemmy hug of death