I hate to get overly optimistic, and it may be that they're just incompetent, but hopefully this is a sign that the ad revenue system for making money is collapsing. Not that I begrudge the ad revenue that people like you get, but in a broader sense, I think there's something fundamentally immoral about what advertising has become, and I'd really like to see content delivery be based on some sort of funding model that wasn't driven by inspiring greed in consumers.
Broadcast TV in the US is suffering serious reductions in what advertisers are willing to pay, prompting various showdowns with cable companies as broadcasters try to get a cut of the cable bill (a funding model that I think makes much more sense).
Of course, given how these things go, the chances that we'll all have to pay for the ability to view content riddled with ads is high. Capitalism: we specialize in bringing you the worst of all possible worlds, simultaneously.
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Date: 2010-01-03 01:14 am (UTC)Broadcast TV in the US is suffering serious reductions in what advertisers are willing to pay, prompting various showdowns with cable companies as broadcasters try to get a cut of the cable bill (a funding model that I think makes much more sense).
Of course, given how these things go, the chances that we'll all have to pay for the ability to view content riddled with ads is high. Capitalism: we specialize in bringing you the worst of all possible worlds, simultaneously.