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Twelve years after the death of Steve Jobs, the cracks are starting to appear at Apple (www.notebookcheck.net)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

So you think they should just make no money because you're mildly inconvenienced?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I’m not saying they aren’t allowed to show ads, but I am saying that once they do, they are no longer allowed to refer to themselves as independent.

No company that wants to advertise on your website is stupid enough to sign away editorial control, i.e. once you agree to display their ads, you are no longer allowed to say anything bad about them. And even if they did, there’s still the looming risk that if you do, they are well within their rights to pull their ads and there goes your income.

If you’re going to show ads, be honest to your readers about what that means.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No. If you make money from ads your clients are the adversers and your readers are an asset you seek to capitalize. That is in opposition to journalistic integrity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And the servers run from exposure?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

no, they don't. you (the reader) have to pay for them - if you want to be the client, that is. otherwise you are the goods that is being sold.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

somehow I doubt most people on here including you pay for online newsletters.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

i do care a lot about your doubts. do you have more of them? 🤣

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

In opposition to popular sentiment, good journalism actually does make money. It just doesn't make as much money. And bad journalism without advertising makes no money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I think corporations should be crushed so they are small enough to drown in a dirty used toilet.