Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

> You can say would prefer to just pay full price for it and avoid the ads, but most people clearly would not like to when given the option.

Truth is, you pay the full price anyways, because the money earned through ads is also paid by you.

Even worse: you additionally pay the advertising industry

> Businesses still need to get their message out, so what do they do? They hire YouTubers to play talk positively about their product, they wine and dine journalists and publications for favorable coverage, which becomes easy because without ads they are hurting for revenue. If ads were banned this would get worse.

No, we wouldn't see it at all, because that's advertising.






Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: