Oh gosh, maybe we'll actually have to pay for things, and we'll find that the market for the fifth random blog trying to make money off of free information using ads doesn't really exist. What a terrible world this will obviously be.
No. The weird thing is this idea that because you put ads on your site, you deserve money. Your ads are making the Internet worse. You probably don't realize this, because you most-likely use an ad blocker, which means you want people too dumb to use ad blockers to subsidize the web that you can use for free, but the current web is working well for approximately no one.
Would I pay $5 a month for StackOverflow if it didn't show up for everything I Google? Most likely. Would this be a better world? almost certainly. We tried the thing with ads. It sucks. I welcome our new AI search overlords.
Power is also centralized when most supposedly independent actors buy ads from the same large advertisers, and utterly depend on their income from those ads to do whatever they're doing.
No. The weird thing is this idea that because you put ads on your site, you deserve money. Your ads are making the Internet worse. You probably don't realize this, because you most-likely use an ad blocker, which means you want people too dumb to use ad blockers to subsidize the web that you can use for free, but the current web is working well for approximately no one.
Would I pay $5 a month for StackOverflow if it didn't show up for everything I Google? Most likely. Would this be a better world? almost certainly. We tried the thing with ads. It sucks. I welcome our new AI search overlords.