takeheart@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoseriously, it's the one thing keeping the web usablelemmy.worldimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1426arrow-down15
arrow-up1421arrow-down1imageseriously, it's the one thing keeping the web usablelemmy.worldtakeheart@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squarenifty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down2·2 months agoAdvertisers should pay people to watch ads, why do they expect attention for free?
minus-squarerockstarmode@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoThey pay the business who owns the ad space, who in turns pays the website or app for their space. You pay for the app or website content by watching the ad. It’s a terrible model, but you are being paid (in content) for watching ads.
minus-squarenifty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agoYuck no, I pay for the content not the ads. That implicit arrangement is false advertising then
Advertisers should pay people to watch ads, why do they expect attention for free?
They pay the business who owns the ad space, who in turns pays the website or app for their space. You pay for the app or website content by watching the ad.
It’s a terrible model, but you are being paid (in content) for watching ads.
Yuck no, I pay for the content not the ads. That implicit arrangement is false advertising then