• LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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    1 month ago

    Advertising and advertisers are the reverse midas touch of the internet. Everything they touch turns to shit.

    Case in point, just look at reddit.

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      1 month ago

      YouTube is terrible without an ad blocker. The current business model is: bait users with free entertaining content, insert reasonable level of ads, stockholders get mad there isn’t exponential growth, really annoy users until they subscribe. I get that companies need to make money, but this cycle seems to be faster than ever now.

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        1 month ago

        The rule is ghat they need to make more money than the year before. A company that need to make money and does would not be an issue. But a company that needs to make more and more each year is the disease.

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          They didn’t need to grow. Current Wallsteet calculation is margin % + growth % => 40%

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    1 month ago

    It’s a shame that advertisers are still planning to cut spending. I, for one, plan to maintain my current level of spending with X. I have no future plans to cut or boost my spending with X.

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    1 month ago

    If they’re still on track to do 1.92B this year, that is far more than people had been saying and far, far too much.