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> Paywalls. You pay with your money.

> Ads. You pay with your attention.

Pretty disingenuous. Ads: You pay with your attention, and, ultimately, either your money or the money of someone who trusts you. This is only not the case to the extent that advertising doesn't actually work, in which case the ethical problems have not stopped for this person.



Indeed, in the full picture there must be someone paying and making this advertising profitable.

If ads were not working, I don't know where this money would go.


They work by connecting people to products they're interested in.




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