Hacker News Reader

The whole bias towards ads blows my mind.

Simply put, ads are about turning money into sales.

The history of the modern Internet is the history of more efficient ways to turn money into sales, to name a few like affiliate marketing, AdWords, social media, or Groupon.

It takes a very pessimistic bet on the innovation to seriously consider showing ads as a part of the business model.

EDIT: style

View on HN

And the history of all media (TV, Radio, Newspapers etc.) is to take money away from the people who want to turn money into sales.

Now it just depends on whether you want to be a media website or a product website.

As far as I know, the media is not able to take any money away. For some time, it was not possible to turn money into sales more effectively.

EDIT: style

All media? No, I don't think so. Books, films, music, games, the list goes on. In fact it is only a quite small subset of media that have been able to successfully fund themselves through media.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com