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>I miss the web then in general. It was full of basically honest information rich stuff.

Completely Agree. People use to share honest information, no conflict of interest, and doing so purely because of passion.

Now that got me thinking. Did the introduction of Web Ads in large, generating vast amount of profits leading to SEO, page spam, content farm and generally lower quality of information?

So in good intention, we hope the web to have a sustainable ad business model, has actually lead to the fall on quality of the web?

Or would the web still have been like today even if we had no ads.

I am not sure if this is true, but this could be another example of good intention leads to bad outcome.



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