it’s never just ads or subscriptions, it’s a shitty integrated fucking garbage algoritm driven with content you don’t want to see shown to you, the interface is ALWAYS shittier and worse, no explanation, just that it looks ‘modern’
i’m so fucking sick of it lads
I think it’s the same principle that led to the slogan “Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM”. It’s a list of checkboxes that someone can present to investors and get money.
Interestingly I had never seen this phrase until a few days ago, on another similar thread, and now it seem like everyone is saying it.
Baader-Lemmyhof?
Probably.
At the very least, I can confirm that the saying was definitely was a thing a decade or two ago, when IBM was major player in enterprise / corporate computing. They generally weren’t the best computers, or the best value, or even particularly great - but they were a safe choice.
You went out and bought new computers for the XYZ department from some competitor - and if anything went wrong, your ass was on the line for buying unreliable garbage from a shitty company. If you bought IBM and the same thing happened, management would kind of shrug and assume that the same problem would have gone wrong on any other computer, because IBM is a trusted safe brand.
So the idea that no one ever got fired for buying IBM was a running joke in tech circles - that it’s not bad, it’s not good, but it is career-safe for the person signing the cheque - and the bean-counters buying computers really like safe.
I was just thinking something along these lines. Telling investors and venture capitalists that your site has “content algorithms” sounds a hell of a lot more professional than “we have ads and subscriptions”, even if the algorithms in practice are just as bad, if not worse. What I’ve learned from my time in the corporate world is that quality of a product does not matter one bit, only how you sell the product marketing strategies and profit projections to investors.