Excellent article sur l'évolution de l'Internet depuis l'adoption de la publicité comme modèle économique dominant ; juste la conclusion :
There is no single “right answer” to the question of how we pay for the tool that lets us share knowledge, opinions, ideas, and photos of cute cats. Whether we embrace micropayments, membership, crowdfunding, or any other model, there are bound to be unintended consequences.
But 20 years in to the ad-supported web, we can see that our current model is bad, broken, and corrosive. It’s time to start paying for privacy, to support services we love, and to abandon those that are free, but sell us—the users and our attention—as the product.
L'article est en ligne : The Atlantic, 14/08/2014
