In my mind (which might be wrong; I’m not particularly knowledgable and have not thought about this deeply) the big issue with ads is the attention economy stuff that Cal Newport talks about. Monetizing (primarily) via ads means that you are competing for eyeballs, which is bad when things like outrage and jealousy prove to attract the most eyeballs instead of things like knowledge and empathy. Well I guess that doesn’t automatically make it bad. It’s just that it’s an undesirable consequence.
In my mind (which might be wrong; I’m not particularly knowledgable and have not thought about this deeply) the big issue with ads is the attention economy stuff that Cal Newport talks about. Monetizing (primarily) via ads means that you are competing for eyeballs, which is bad when things like outrage and jealousy prove to attract the most eyeballs instead of things like knowledge and empathy. Well I guess that doesn’t automatically make it bad. It’s just that it’s an undesirable consequence.