We should think about the advertising model before its too late and it gets shoved onto us. I think each community should get its own advertiser and they get a stick post on each post which is limited to 300 chars and one url.
Its simple, non intrusive and we can make it a bidding. 80 % of the proceeds should go to the maintenance of the instance, 20 % should go to the moderators of the instance.
Would warner brothers want this for 100 $ on movies ? I think so …
I used to watch a lot of twitch in the mid 10’s. There’s products I still boycott because of their excessive ads on twitch almost a decade ago.
Every time I opened a new stream. Even if I just wanted to check out a stream for 20 seconds? 30 seconds ads. Every. Damn. Time. More than a hundred times a day?
I have never, and will never spend any money on Noisy softdrinks. I will always tell this story when ever I have a reasonable chance, and how out of touch with their audience Sunniva was. It ended up as a drink for geriatrics in the end. Noisy drinks are watered down juice. Their winning argument was that it was juice. But with water!
I would, thanks to their disgusting ads, not drink Noisy softdrink if they were free and I was thirsty. This situation have already arisen.
Every time I see a product from Tine/Sunniva I think about this. Whenever I have a choice I pick products from the competing Q company since I’ve never seen an ad from them, even if it’s on average between 1.5-2% more expensive. Tine/Sunniva tried to brainwash me to spend money on their products, I hate them for that just like I hate any other ad-pushing company. But the amount of ads regarding the Noisy watered down juice I was unwillingly exposed to was exceptional. Extraordinary.
If any readers ever get the chance to boycott Tine or their sub brand Sunniva, you should. You should also tell everybody you know about this story, even if you live in Bogota. I hope my disdain for Tine/Sunniva due to their awful advertising practice a decade ago is globally known.
LOL, that was a great story. I’ve been running ublock origin for such a long time that I can’t even remember hating any brand with a passion like that. Oh, well I guess Meta deserves that throne for reasons besides direct advertising.