Tim Wu Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Movies you pay for - well, sometimes they throw some ads at the beginning now - but generally you pay for ads. And that business model - actually, much more ancient, paying for stuff - is much more straightforward in terms of the incentives of the people who are then giving you the stuff.

  Tim Wu

  Giving, People, Incentives

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• Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.

  Tim Wu

  Goal, Giving, Trying

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• Google - and some of the other sites, YouTube and, you know - Google has an amazing search engine. The map product is incredible. So there's a sort of exchange when you put up with a bunch of ads. Facebook basically gives you access to your friends who, in theory, you had access to already. So sometimes I don't really understand the deal, but I guess it makes it slightly easier. So that's their contribution.

  Tim Wu

  Giving, Google, Maps

  Source: www.npr.org

• You know, it's so funny that the internet's become a series of traps where you do sort of innocent things like give your name or address or indicate a preference, I like this thing, and then therefore you open yourself up to a deluge of advertising based on those stated preferences.

  Tim Wu

  Names, Giving, Addresses

  "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wjsu.org. October 17, 2016.

• Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.

  Tim Wu

  Voice, People, Giving

  Source: www.npr.org

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