Just came across below message from ‘‘the guardian’’ asking for donations, ndio ujue ni kunoma. social media tings…
[B]Since you’re here…
…we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but far fewer are paying for it. And advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too.
If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps to pay for it, our future would be much more secure.[/B]
Pornhub had started ile upuss ya if u have ABP installed uwezi ona any of their porn videos. Wankers wakawatoka and migrated to other sites. Ilibidii wacheze chini, now u can watch videos with adblock but unabembelezwa utoe
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If their content is so unique then I’m sure people will pay. If people don’t pay, it means similar content can be found elsewhere on the internet, for free. So why the fuck would I pay for it? These publications are going to have it very rough in the coming years. With so much information floating around, and social media properties like Facebook,Twitter and Google acting like news aggregators, it means most people only get a steady stream of snippets. People only click on links that really catch their attention. It doesn’t make sense to commit to one site when there’s so much free information out there,
French newspapers tried to force Google to start paying for posting snippets of information from their sites. Google told them in a very polite way, to fuck off. They ordered Google to stop posting information from their sites. Google obliged. The very sudden drop in readership they experienced made them go back to Google, tails tucked between legs, to negotiate for better terms. What they failed to understand is that Google sends readers their way by posting tiny bits of information from their sites. They need Google more than they know. Though generally speaking, these giant tech companies have been seeing increasing revenue over the years while paying less to content publishers.
It’s a new world order.
Google is the gatekeeper of search, and Facebook is the gatekeeper of social, the lions share of internet revenue goes to these two, hao wengine nikukauka