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"If you’re a millennial, you may remember that specific moment in time around
the late 2000s when streaming video technology had just gotten good but there
weren’t that many legitimate streaming platforms available yet. So if you were
a student without a TV and you wanted to watch a show, you would go to a
website that aggregated lists of illegal streams.
It would be covered in banner ads and autoplaying video ads decorated with
little play button arrows, and in order to watch your show, you would have to
solve the puzzle of figuring out which play button to click that would actually
get you to your show instead of spiriting you away to a website that sold
upsetting porn or amateurish video games. It could be done, but you had to be
paying attention, and you had to have the barest modicum of web savvy to do it
right.
Right now, navigating the ebook and audiobook marketplaces is like being back
on those sites. There are a thousand banner ads larded with keywords, and
they’re all trying to get your clicks."
Via
The RISKS Digest Volume 34 Issue 19:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/34/19#subj18
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
