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  • bignosebignose@theblower.au
    Oct 18, 2026, 3:10 AM

    @joshsutphin
    > I look forward to the day when I can confidently pull the plug on their entire rotten ecosystem and know the business will remain healthy.

    I'm torn between “why did businesses ever hand over such control to Meta (or Google, or any other #AdTech parasite), this extractive monopoly was the obvious direction from the start?!”, versus the fact that trying to advertise a small organisation or product is always fraught and compromised.

    But we really must kill off the advertising monopolies, and make illegal the sociopathic practices; the #enshittification is long entrenched.

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  • Assimilateborgassimilateborg@kind.social
    Oct 18, 2026, 7:54 AM

    @bignose @joshsutphin I know of 2 orgs who pulled all ads from their online presence and only use patreon or similar. They try to go away from youtube and use patreon, but YT is still a big solid presence. No ads on youtube, no ads on their website. And the website got blazing fast after removing all ads.
    And when you go to universetoday.com/ you will notice there is no cookie popup.

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  • Simon EI3JDBEI3JDB@mastodon.radio
    Oct 18, 2026, 11:10 AM

    @bignose @joshsutphin As someone who ran a small business in the 80's-90s, I can tell you at least one reason - advertising is awful. It's almost impossible to tell who is watching and how they're responding without adtech of some sort.

    Google and the gang offered a way to help with that. Then they enshittified - but not quite as badly as the pre-Internet days.

    Advertising is a dumpster fire fuelled by money. Always has been - probably always will be.

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