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Episode edited by: Jake Bauer https://www.paritybit.ca - thanks!

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Discussion - The Attention Economy

• Attention Economy on Wikipedia

• Brave's Basic Attention Token

• LTT's infamous sponsor seugues in a YouTube compilation

• Jay Forman's Tube Map YouTube video with a SurfShark VPN ad towards the end

• Dynamic ad insertion

  • The Verge's article on the topic

  • Interactive Advertising Bureau's US podcast ad revenue PDF report

    • Page 12 shows that in 2021, dynamically inserted ads brought in 84% of revenue, as opposed to 16% for "baked in" ads. This trend has been on a steep rise in the last few years.

• Data brokers (from Wikipedia)

• Ethical ads

  • Their ad server is open source, you can self-host it

• Ad Nauseam

• Ready Player One

• Idiocracy

• All the tech giants want all the advertising (from The Economist)

• YouTube Music pays more than Spotify, but it's still close to nothing: $0.008 on YTM against $0.003 to $0.005 on Spotify per stream. (from Hypebot)

• Odysee

• XKCD on free speech

• Perceptual blinders on Wikipedia

• 👍 uBlock Origin

• 👎 Adblock Plus

• Blokada for Android and iOS

• Adaway for Android

• Pihole

• Adguard

• YouTube Vanced

• NewPipe supports YouTube, SoundCloud, https://media.ccc.de/ and PeerTube

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