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our expanded focus on online advertising won’t be embraced by everyone in our community

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[–] tux0r@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Creators and journalists need money to survive, and currently, ad-supported viewing is necessary for that to happen.

The only way out of this is to block advertising. I, personally, think that you should not have a website if you can't pay for it yourself, but the only acceptable kind of website income is a paywall. If you just have "better advertising", advertising will never go away. And I hate ads.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I, personally, think that you should not have a website if you can't pay for it yourself

You might want to consider how expensive web hosting can be, depending on the content and traffic. A belief like that can shut out a huge portion of the world from being able to even bother with a web site. Even a simple blog can get very expensive due to traffic. Maybe not expensive enough for your average 1st world individual... But that still excludes a large portion of the population with internet access.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So? Is anyone who can’t afford one legally obliged to have a website?

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

No, but if its prohibitively impossible to do so, people with legitimate good ideas will never be able to do anything about it. Barriers to entry only serve the wealthy.

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