<story><title>Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Facebook</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-21/amazon-said-to-launch-mobile-ads-in-threat-to-google-facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keepper</author><text>Would you put your money where your opinion is?&lt;p&gt;You can demand your attention back, but are you willing to pay for the content you consume? I say this in earnest. We had great content in newspapers and magazines... and the world decide that cheap ( with instance access ) was better. Same has happened to many industries.&lt;p&gt;You shouldn&amp;#x27;t demand, without a willingness to, well, compensate.</text></item><item><author>aszantu</author><text>Does anyone else feel disgust towards the world we live in? Everywhere you look, you get adds thrown in your face.
Facebook is marketing to your profile, not just paid adds but people with their business.
You meet a new person in a café they tell you about their business and try to sell stuff... 
You dare to go online with your smartphone and there&amp;#x27;s a million apps updating and when you open them they throw more adds in your face.
can I demand my attention back please?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arendtio</author><text>&amp;gt; You can demand your attention back, but are you willing to pay for the content you consume?&lt;p&gt;Yes, I do.&lt;p&gt;In fact, I want to consume a lot less than the media corporations want me to consume (especially &amp;#x27;news&amp;#x27;). So paying for Netflix&amp;#x2F;Spotify&amp;#x2F;Prime&amp;#x2F;Steam is no problem for me and I probably would pay for news if I would find it of any value. Today, every news corporation seems to have its own agenda and you have to do your own research anyway.&lt;p&gt;I am just wondering how much I would have to pay to get the other stuff without that DRM garbage... I mean for games we have GOG, but for movies and music, I haven&amp;#x27;t found a legal DRM-free source yet that offers the main-stream products :-&amp;#x2F;</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon to Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat to Google and Facebook</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-21/amazon-said-to-launch-mobile-ads-in-threat-to-google-facebook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keepper</author><text>Would you put your money where your opinion is?&lt;p&gt;You can demand your attention back, but are you willing to pay for the content you consume? I say this in earnest. We had great content in newspapers and magazines... and the world decide that cheap ( with instance access ) was better. Same has happened to many industries.&lt;p&gt;You shouldn&amp;#x27;t demand, without a willingness to, well, compensate.</text></item><item><author>aszantu</author><text>Does anyone else feel disgust towards the world we live in? Everywhere you look, you get adds thrown in your face.
Facebook is marketing to your profile, not just paid adds but people with their business.
You meet a new person in a café they tell you about their business and try to sell stuff... 
You dare to go online with your smartphone and there&amp;#x27;s a million apps updating and when you open them they throw more adds in your face.
can I demand my attention back please?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bduerst</author><text>Google used to allow you to pay pennies to websites to hide display ads their site, or replace them entirely with cat pictures.  It wasn&amp;#x27;t complete coverage since Google doesn&amp;#x27;t own all ad networks, but it was something like 55% of the ads on sites.&lt;p&gt;Then they changed the whole program to only have 100% coverage on very specific sites, which kind of makes it useless unless you frequent those specific domains: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;contributor&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;7324995&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;contributor&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;7324995&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>