Advertising Rant
Jun. 27th, 2015 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Call me old fashioned, but wasn't there a time when web developers and administrators designed websites for the sake of content and not making money? Is someone entitled to being remunerated simply because they perform a certain activity, without a negotiated wage rate? Is someone entitled to being remunerated, the degree to which dependent upon how many individuals access the content they created, without any actual exchange of hard currency or physical goods?
It's nice and all that advertising has wedged itself into basically every nook and cranny of our world, but the internet is one of the last vestiges where the end-user can still control content directly. If I turn on the television, I get 5 minutes of volume-boosted ads every 15 minutes. If I turn on the radio, I get the same. If I drive down a highway, I have gigantic billboards impressed upon me. One can't escape advertising unless they live an incredibly retreatist lifestyle - and there are even instances of advertising being embedded into the very media or art we access needlessly. Music (and music videos), cinema, and even books, all can contain "micro-advertising" where a real product is displayed or mentioned and the artist or entertainer in question is remunerated for such embedding.
I really, really hate the advertising industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qd8E6m7S4g
Call me old fashioned, but wasn't there a time when web developers and administrators designed websites for the sake of content and not making money? Is someone entitled to being remunerated simply because they perform a certain activity, without a negotiated wage rate? Is someone entitled to being remunerated, the degree to which dependent upon how many individuals access the content they created, without any actual exchange of hard currency or physical goods?
It's nice and all that advertising has wedged itself into basically every nook and cranny of our world, but the internet is one of the last vestiges where the end-user can still control content directly. If I turn on the television, I get 5 minutes of volume-boosted ads every 15 minutes. If I turn on the radio, I get the same. If I drive down a highway, I have gigantic billboards impressed upon me. One can't escape advertising unless they live an incredibly retreatist lifestyle - and there are even instances of advertising being embedded into the very media or art we access needlessly. Music (and music videos), cinema, and even books, all can contain "micro-advertising" where a real product is displayed or mentioned and the artist or entertainer in question is remunerated for such embedding.
I really, really hate the advertising industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qd8E6m7S4g
