Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us'
I don't want to dunk on a single out-of-context quote, and I'm sure that Mr. Tetzchner fully understands what I'm about to type as he seems like a brilliant guy. But blaming the current miasma on "advertisers" is so short-sighted.The reason why everything is ruined by advertising is because nearly everybody expects content to be free to the end user on the internet. The money has to come from somewhere, so advertising it is.Why does everybody want everything to be free? That's a more interesting question.Is it because years of free broadcast television and radio conditioned us to expect everything to be ad-supported and "free?"Is it because everything was sort of "free by default" in the early days of the internet because we hadn't worked out payment systems and such?