Listen now | Noah Smith & Brad DeLong's 30:00 < [Length of Weekly Podcast] < 60:00: Key Insights: —There are a great many reasons to fear that the rise of industrial and post-industrial economic concentration is doing serious harm to the market economy’s (limited) ability to function as an efficiency-promoting societal calculating mechanism. —None of these have yet been nailed down. —But the neo-Brandeisians will have their chance because of the striking misbehavior of the tech platforms, which have thought too much about how to glue their users’ eyeballs to the screen so they can be sold ads and too little about how to make users and others happy and comfortable with their business models. —That is, the neo-Brandeisians will have their chance to the extent that they are not blocked by justices who know little of the law and less of economics. —Hexapodia!
I use a FB adblocker. However, there has been a rapid rise in "sponsored stories" whose sponsor you don't want to block. This seems to be the model to circumvent ad blocking on FB.
The sponsors are organizations and companies like National geographic, WSJ, etc. These are reputable and have some interesting posts of their own. Imagine if a website forced you to have to scroll through clickbait unless you blocked the host website that does offer value. I recall some decades ago that print media started including "sponsored articles", often outrageous puff piece material, often disguised as news on news sites. It was controversial then. I see this trend on FB as a way to get this material into your news feed without an easy way to block it. Ideally, the content owner should be lockable, not the sponsor. If it becomes very intrusive, then I will be forced to block the sponsor too.
So basically somebody needs to run a clipping service, or an ad-stripping pre-processor... We now have micropayments for advertisers; why not micropayments for content as well?
Very interesting. How did you train it?
I use a FB adblocker. However, there has been a rapid rise in "sponsored stories" whose sponsor you don't want to block. This seems to be the model to circumvent ad blocking on FB.
Why don't you want to block the sponsor?
The sponsors are organizations and companies like National geographic, WSJ, etc. These are reputable and have some interesting posts of their own. Imagine if a website forced you to have to scroll through clickbait unless you blocked the host website that does offer value. I recall some decades ago that print media started including "sponsored articles", often outrageous puff piece material, often disguised as news on news sites. It was controversial then. I see this trend on FB as a way to get this material into your news feed without an easy way to block it. Ideally, the content owner should be lockable, not the sponsor. If it becomes very intrusive, then I will be forced to block the sponsor too.
So basically somebody needs to run a clipping service, or an ad-stripping pre-processor... We now have micropayments for advertisers; why not micropayments for content as well?