@cuchaz Well the reality is advertising companies are...

@cuchaz Well the reality is advertising companies are paying for all the content that vast amounts of people are consuming for free. (For better or worse, that's a fact, the sun comes up for free.. Beyond that.. Not so much)

I don't think the value of the feature to Firefox is not destroyed by fewer participants. From the perspective of Firefox there is no impact from the amount of participants. The way the math works is fewer participants has an impact on the users of the feature. Not Firefox

Like 13 July at 1:44 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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Alexey Mints

@Schouten_B @cuchaz in most cases, these content is generated not by those recieving ad payments. And it is generated mainly for free.

13 July at 9:04 | Open on astrodon.social

Bas Schouten

@minzastro @cuchaz That isn't true AFAIK. Even on a site like YouTube content creators get revenue somewhat proportional to what their content generated. And in other cases, like say Facebook, ads pay for the service of -being able- to share your content (remember Geocities :-)).

13 July at 9:30 | Open on mastodon.social