A new survey suggests that most Canadians feel news should be free and accessible for anyone, while also believing that media will find other ways to make money.
News is allowed, just not links to third-party media outlets. I notice the local CTV reporter has started posting the news directly on Facebook rather than linking into CTV like he used to do. Which is fine – who on Facebook wants to leave Facebook in the first place? Users use Facebook because they want to use Facebook, not painful third-party websites that have paid no attention to UX.
How about instead of shakedown laws we pass some laws about malicious advertising online? People are less likely to block ads when the ads are not actively trying to fuck over their device.
Right to repair is a huge issue that most people totally ignore, it’s frustrating. However you can’t ban advertising online. it’s how operators pay for their servers. Either every site that provides a service has a subscription model or runs ads.
You can ban it. Its not my problem how they pay. Nobody asked them to take over the internet and turn ever pixel into an ad. Ban ads, these sites die and we get back the real internet.
You know someone has to pay for websites right? Like If no one donated to Wikipedia they would not exist. If you want to get back to “The Real Internet” you are going to have to start hosting all your own images, blog posts, e-mail server…
However you can’t ban advertising online. it’s how operators pay for their servers.
And how do you think John Deere pays for its servers?
No, not by ads, but by locking down their software such that only those who pay a fee to enable the features which rely on those servers are able to use those features. Right to repair is seen as a problem for them because it would open up the software configuration, allowing enabling of those features without paying the fee.
Right to repair trusts that actors will act in good faith and pay the fee, even if it can be technically avoided. Why can’t ads go the same way? If you opt-out of seeing ads then surely we can trust that you will pay the equivalence by some other means?
The survey suggests that two out of every three Canadians think that news should be free and accessible to anyone, and “the struggling media have other ways to make money.”
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That feeling was highest among 18 to 34-year-olds, a group that mainly gets their news from social media.
Unsurprising given the landscape we grew up in and problematic. At least I’m guess this cohort would be more inclined to have more publicly funded media to make it “free” to all.
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