• mrnobody@reddthat.com
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    22 days ago

    Plenty of companies made plenty of money before the internet and loads of ads, ads now are just pure greed.

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      22 days ago

      Right, but before the internet, typically you either purchased the medium like a newspaper or magazine, which also usually contained ads, or watched TV that contained ads, or listened to the radio which contained ads. Also, sponsored content existed long before YouTube; remember Ralphie in A Christmas Story decoding the message from the radio show?

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      22 days ago

      It’s the same shit with Hollywood for example. Well that movie only made us 10million dollars. What a flop, we won’t do that again. Imagine any other “company” working like that. Imagine a plumber finishing up a big ass job, all the expenses and salaries are paid, so it’s already a success. It’s not a success because he made 200k more than expected