{"id":5553,"date":"2025-07-01T16:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:20:47","slug":"in-defense-of-the-ad-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/01\/in-defense-of-the-ad-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of the Ad Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to say this is stupid and wrong, but unfortunately I&#8217;m not sure it is. And in fairness it works out great for me; since I routinely use adblockers I&#8217;m being subsidized by the people who\u00a0<em>do<\/em> look at ads.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ads are annoying, except as compared to the alternative. And this is true at many levels. Not only do ads elegantly solve some pricing problems, they actually create a continuous economic incentive to hunt down spammers and even to care about the quality rather than quantity of time spent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thediff.co\/archive\/in-defense-of-the-ad-economy\/?ref=the-diff-newsletter\">In Defense of the Ad Economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to say this is stupid and wrong, but unfortunately I&#8217;m not sure it is. And in fairness it works out great for me; since I routinely use adblockers I&#8217;m being subsidized by the people who\u00a0do look at ads. Ads are annoying, except as compared to the alternative. And this is true at many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1rz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5554,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions\/5554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}