(This is distinct from the small number of people who object to any advertising at all - the fruitarians of media)
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We don’t want irrelevant ads or ads that are too relevant. We don’t want anyone to know what we bought but we want the advertiser to know we already bought that. And we refuse (mostly) to pay but we don’t really want ads anyway. Our feelings about online ads are pretty unresolved
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I’ve been clicking ‘Hide Ad/Not Relevant’ on every Instagram ad for a few months and the ads I now get are amazing and mad, somewhere between Innovations catalogue and local newspaper classifieds
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Surely a weird electronic music thing is perfect targeting for you?
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I knew you’d say that, bad example. Try this lot (that said, I’ve been working at Condé so the socks are
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Big props to Dave man I dig the entrepreneurial spirit
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My feelings about online ads are far from unresolved. I hate them, period.
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Thank you for your valuable contribution. I will be sure to keep it in mind.
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No. We don’t care if ads are relevant. We don’t want anyone to know what we buy. We’re happy with a mix of paying and ads if the experience and content are decent and we maintain our privacy. This isn’t difficult to understand or solve. See newspapers, magazines, cable TV.
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The last 20 years demonstrates that people will not pay for the vast majority of the media they consume online
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People will use what's available. If good service is free, they'll use it. If better service costs, they'll pay. See how many people are paying Netflix (and *enjoying* that they don't insert ads).
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Not included here is the willingness to pay to not deal with ads. Netflix vs TV. Once you experience ad-less shows, anything less is completely intolerable. Same with Spotify.
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would argue Netflix shows have become quite ad-heavyhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/20/forget-product-placement-advertisers-buy-storylines-tv-blackish …
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You really think that? That people 'want' to see ads?
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The great thing about markets and competition is that the products available to us reflect the products we want. Given the prevalence of ads, I think it’s safe to say people like ad supported business models
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There’s a pretty big gap between “like” and “have little choice but to accept” ...
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Nothing is stopping a non-ad based business from existing. If a strong preference for that point of differentiation existed, a company serving it would too
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... nothing apart from network effects and massive capital pools, that is ;)
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1 million readers ready to directly fund seems like a decent data point:https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2018/nov/12/katharine-viner-guardian-million-reader-funding …
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Exactly! Some people don’t like ads and there’s a product for it. Over a billion other people like the model that has ads. Lots of people like ads
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As I was suggesting earlier "liking" is not the same as "not yet having found as easy a path to extract yourself from a networked service as it was to become enrolled". Tolerate != like
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