• theluddite@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    I am the dude. Fair enough, but your summary misses the point. The original website was a useful tool that people use, but it didn’t qualify for adsense. I draw an analogy to recipes. Recipe sites used to be useful, but now you have to scroll through tons of blogspam to even get to the recipe. Google has a monopoly on ads, and like it or not, ad revenue is how people who make websites get paid. Google’s policies for what qualifies for AdSense have a huge impact on the internet.

    The point of the post is to show how direct that relationship is, using an existing and useful website.

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      1 year ago

      Years ago Google decided that the bigger a site was, the better. This is a ridiculous metric and has resulted in irrelevant bullshit, no offense, clogging the internet.

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      1 year ago

      Hi Mr dude! Good article. I was just providing a TLDR since the title was a little nebulous and I’m sure some people aren’t going to click through unless they get enticed. Sorry for missing the main theme.