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RE: Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone) Identifies Two Obstacles to Digital Long Form Journalism - Does Steem Solve One?
The news industry got hit really hard by the invention of the ad-blockers. People just don't want to look at those eyesore banners, but more importantly, those ads are a major source of adware and viruses.
Because Steemit has no ads, those two major problems have been solved! I predict that a lot of journalists will sooner or later leave the major news organizations and form their own brands on platforms like Steemit.
Yeah the ads are out of control and it isn't getting any better. I find it near impossible to browse most blogs -- even after I subscribe to all the newsletters, if I do everything they want, the pop ups NEVER STOP. They aren't intelligent.
Those kinds of websites are designed for one thing: Maximizing signups to the email list. Everyone knows it, nobody knows how to avoid the problem tho. IDK. I hope to have a website one day that does not do any of the ads, much like how Steem handles it.