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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Great choice of website:

Independent journalism is made possible by advertising.

That is the polar opposite of the truth.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

NoteBookCheck is a legit website, what issue do you have with them? I always found their reviews and information and testing to be high quality

This is like shitting on GamersNexus because they removed some shitty product in every video to make money

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."

– Banksy

[–] [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 (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] 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] 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Either you pay for access like the good old newspaper by gatekeeping the page or run unrelated ads from google AdWords and get paid by people clicking on them.