Advertising is an incredibly shitty and inefficient way of funding. Not only that, it breaks the model that someone wanting a service is the one to pay for it, distorting the incentive model (see current_date). Hopefully we can get to fully subscriber funded in time.
Apple’s direction for ad targeting is device-side that isn’t tied to a particular site and doesn’t track you in servers they own. That lack of a tracking mechanism makes it hard to extort/cancel content providers through ad revenue streams because the advertisers have less control.
Advertising is an incredibly shitty and inefficient way of funding. Not only that, it breaks the model that someone wanting a service is the one to pay for it, distorting the incentive model (see current_date). Hopefully we can get to fully subscriber funded in time.
Apple’s direction for ad targeting is device-side that isn’t tied to a particular site and doesn’t track you in servers they own. That lack of a tracking mechanism makes it hard to extort/cancel content providers through ad revenue streams because the advertisers have less control.