Fark NotNewsletter: Google farked us over
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#2Isn't there enough competition within the ad industry to just switch to a different provider?
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#3It's free market, isn't it? Take it or leave it - nobody forces you to use Google ad network. ;). /s
At this point I'm convinced that nothing but regulation can make those big companies - on which our digital lives are more and more dependent - to provide even a modicum of customer support. Right now they don't care, because they simply don't have to - a HN headline every other week doesn't create measurable losses, because users don't have comparable alternatives (and the Internet, paradoxically, has very short memory). On the other hand, having customer support costs real money...
EDIT: Added a sarcasm tag next to the winkie, just in case someone mistakes my comment for a defense of Google.
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#4Google has long since passed the point of critical mass and a self-sustaining reaction. These days an individual publisher needs Google much more than Google needs an individual publisher. So why should Google spend resources on customer care when, as years of HN and other sites' threads demonstrate, it doesn't matter? The individual publisher can be relied on to claw at the rock at his own expense to attempt resolution.
Google is doing very well, and lack of support hasn't harmed them. It's not just that customer care is done algorithmically; my guess is that the meta-decision on whether or how much customer care is needed is also algorithmic.
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#6Isn't there enough competition within the ad industry to just switch to a different provider?
Nope. There really isn't, or if there is, it's niche dependent. To diversify away from Google, I've tried other ad providers and struggled to make 20% as much...
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#7Woah, Fark still exists and looks almost exactly how I remember it 15 years ago
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#8Isn't there enough competition within the ad industry to just switch to a different provider?
Nope. There really isn't, or if there is, it's niche dependent. To diversify away from Google, I've tried other ad providers and struggled to make 20% as much...
agreed. most of the time it's google or bust.
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#9Hubris combined with the amount of power Google has is a recipe for disaster.
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#10It's free market, isn't it? Take it or leave it - nobody forces you to use Google ad network. ;). /s At this point I'm convinced that nothing but regulation can make those big companies - on which our digital lives are more and more dependent - to provide even a modicum of customer support. Right now they don't care, because they simply don't have to - a HN headline every other week doesn't create measurable losses,…
I never really understand why comments like this get downvoted.
There seems to be love for the free market. That is until the free market goes against what I want. Then the free market sucks!
What if FARK was another type of business. Say it is the corner 7-11[1]. They have been there for 18 years, and their major source of customers was the big factory next door.
Factory decides to either move / redesign / whatever, where the customers are no longer available.
The store makes a big noise - would anyone care?
[1] in this example, I mean any sort of "corner store". 20 years ago we'd call them milk bars, but now I'm showing my age...