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Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says
(techcrunch.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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They absolutely should but advertisers wouldn't like that.
Ad-driven internet needs to die.
Ad everything needs to die. It should straight up become illegal to advertise anything other than for people who opt-in. If your product, movie or service is good, it'll get popular through word of mouth.
The users don't pay. Thus the dilemma.
The answer: better porn?
I think we are getting ready to. At least I am paying for Kagi search and Fastmail and it's very much worth it. :)
Partially true: they want to bring it back but payment processors wouldn't like that (the post i am linking is from the CEO of Tumblr's parent company, who bought it from Verizon in 2019)
Oh yeah, I forgot but I had heard something about it around that time. Shame.
I don't get why credit card companies have beef with porn though...
ostensibly it's because the porn industry is unstable financially, and connected to a lot of shady issues/illegal practices that could open them up to some kinds of liability. (I don't remember which sorts)