I used to work at a startup that was trying to replace ads as the
funding source for news (we failed, obviously)
but the crazy thing we discovered is that the people who run news
websites mostly don’t know where their ads are coming from, have
forgotten how the ad system was installed in the first place, and
cannot turn them off if they try
we actually shipped a server-side ad blocker, for a parter who had
so completely lost control of their own platform that it was the
only way to make the ads stop
I used to work at a startup …
If this is true,
and this company didn't know how its own system worked,
presumedly before the LLM crazy train,
then things are going to get vastly more interesting,
and not in the good way …
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