Sorry Sherry, thought you needed one more book to round out your day. :-)
I surely was in rant mode, love it. I was responding to Kristi’s story with my take on the state of the internet for anyone trying to make income on the internet. So recently what the supergiant tech concerns push out of their collective PR departments is, as always, only customer-focused window dressing. Really though due to trending mega-sites, like Youtube, Spotify, insta-whatever, tick-tock, apple, amazon, google, FB, and many others where most of the revenue from these sites don’t go to creators on those sites.
Think Medium writers where the Holy Grail is curation plus a hit on some viral story, where a writer might experience an income bounce that month. Actually, in all the mega-sites listed above, the high earners are very very very few in number compared to all the creatives involved.
Part of the ‘everybody wants to rule the (internet) world’ war ongoing, is the constant harassment users get when being linked (link-baited?) elsewhere for more content. Depending on website browser behavior by users, at any time, that site might say, ‘subscribe’(or go to hell), ‘allow cookies’(or go to hell), ‘allow (our) tracking’ (or go to hell again), turn off your ad-blockers, (or go to hell some more again), etc. So when I’m linked to further content, for good enhancement reasons or just promos, and get this crap ad nausea, I simply switch to a browser temporarily that is wide open to any kind of spam imaginable, and then I’m able to finish or resolve the intended content, and when done exit and clean history, etc. at the same time. So we shouldn’t have to jump through all these hoops, and I’m determined not to put up with random internet concerns telling me how, where, and what, to read. Enough people own my backside already, don’t want to join any more soul & money sucking spam, got enough already.
For Example; many Medium writers will include, say, Twitter thread feeds linked in their stories, well many times depending on the redirect to that Twitter content, I simply use the trashy browser so I can actually see the content. Done, over, capisce?
Yes, Sherry, unbeknownst to the masses of internet users is an ongoing hot war of internet giants determined and looking for more billions than they already have. It’s in the capitalist genes. The collateral damage is; smaller businesses and individuals with some shingle on the internet somewhere are being ground out if not totally unfindable on the internet by all the changing policies. Free and open internet? Bull sh#t! In America, it’s the, I own your ass internet, and your subscription is in late! Do $omething or go to hell. :-)
