Users benefit from a web where sites can make money by showing ads, because the alternatives (primarily paywalls) are worse. More: https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-i-work-on-ads
(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
With ads, content quality goes down. You don't need to convince people that your content is worth reading, you just need to convince Google. Slap a few expired domains on your text-spinner generated content and off you go.
Not all content is created equal, and Made-For-Adsense content would not have been made otherwise and would not take away attention from quality content.
I believe you're rationalizing your paycheck.
https://digiday.com/media/googles-confirmed-clicks-initiativ...
The monetized web has in a lot of measures exceeded the frontiers of what the ragtag petite bourgeoisie of the early internet could ever be but, in the process, the great majority of us (both users and the very long tail of non-top content creators) have invariably become peasants.
I'm not saying there was any other way to have what we have now, but what we have now kinda ain't sooo good when one isn't the middleman in a process architected for the middleman's benefit.
Weird position to take when most high-quality content is already shifting to a paywall model (or didn't base their business model on advertising in the first place). And ad-supported content is in a race to the bottom meaning any content useful beyond light entertainment is drying up.
They are not.
The world has survived for millenia without tracking ads.
For a very, very long time.
> Cause I see a lot of it dieing every day, being replaced with walls.
That's because companies feel value in silos and extracting every cent they can out of users.
Since its birth, clearly. No matter how you try and spin this, advertising is not a requite for a free and open Web. If ads were to disappear tomorrow, web sites which society has deemed important will survive, the others (if income was necessary in the first place) will indeed perish. And we will be just fine.