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Google will pull news links in Canada in response to new law
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Nearly every ad on the Internet that isn't on Facebook is a Google ad. They take approximately 1/3 of the money the publisher makes on the ad. So, if Ford pays $1 per click on an ad shown on the Toronto Star, the Star gets $0.68 and Google gets $0.32. Also, Ford pays Google to show that ad because Google runs both the publisher and advertiser sides of the game.
Sure, to some extent. But, the big, powerful news organizations used to have content that was in such high demand that they journalism staff was insulated from the ads side of things. It also used to be a point of honour among journalists and their editors that they were going to speak truth to power, even if it alienated some of their advertisers.
I disagree, most communities become echo-chambers, certain hardware is popular, and certain hardware is "trash" and if you disagree you get downvoted or shouted down. It's very rare when you can have an informed, balanced conversation about whether nVidia or AMD have the best card at a certain price point. At best you have fanbois for each side duking it out.
Anyhow, the point is that traditional media, media that actually hires people who went to journalism school, now has to compete with random bloggers, people who want to be influencers, people looking to be paid for their affiliate links, etc. Google and Facebook don't care what you click on, as long as there's a chance you'll click on their ads. So, if they have to pay a link tax to link to traditional media companies, they're happy just to link to the other stuff instead -- or just to link to American news sites.
That's the root cause no? why does it has to go through Google or Meta? If Ford paid google and Toronto Star give google ad space for ad revenue split, everything is in the contract. There is no law to prevent traditional media to have their own union ad organization right? Or at very least, Toronto can refuse and run their own ad space selling like old paper times. If say, Ford can't do it the old way like on paper, why is that? Toronto Star don't have enough technical people to handle online ad? don't know how to do ad pricing and conversion tracking? don't know how to do targeted ads? Those aren't google's fault, if traditional media wants to save money on upgrade their ad technology and backend, they will ended up forking money and purchase what others provided.
That's also not google's problem, it's the industry's problem. Like theaters/cable tv fighting for survival against streaming, brick and mortar fighting against Amazon, people only want to spend time or money on things they feel justified.
If you go to nvidia community and ask what AMD card is better, then yeah, that's sort of stupid. In my example, my question or intention is to ask directly in the game's community. ie. if you ask which monitor might be best in "Home Theater" vs in "CS:GO" community, you would get totally different answer. Which is exactly what should happen for specific "review" for certain target audience. But we only get generic reviews that covers some talk points but not have actual feedbacks. So if I want to have best performance for say, Street Fighter, than I go ask in that community for best setup. Compare to spend hours and hours on review sites, you can quickly get a couple candidates for building/upgrading your PC/setup.
Lastly, say, if people go through say, fine art school, should we protect their job opportunity? Or people that have management degree they should get management jobs? Where are those shoe fixing/tailor made clothing jobs? The entire world is moving target, "used to be" is not a proper excuse to put a bad legislation that might actually back fire and damage the industry in the end.
They have a duopoly.
No law, no. But, you understand how monopolies / duopolies / cartels work, right?
No, the old times are gone.
It's not technical people, although they don't have them either. It's that they don't have the reach / coverage / power of the duopoly and can't realistically compete with them.
Again, a red herring.
That's like saying that if you don't like Bell Canada's phone prices, just start your own continent-spanning telephony company.
Which is likely to be polarized for either AMD or nVidia.
Irrelevant to what we're discussing.