Comments on: The A word http://blogs.reuters.com/emanuelderman/2012/02/20/the-a-word/ Models.Behaving.Badly Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:10:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Timoth http://blogs.reuters.com/emanuelderman/2012/02/20/the-a-word/#comment-275 Timoth Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:43:54 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/emanuelderman/?p=730#comment-275 In addition to the ethical dimensions, does this not also set the stage for a form of market failure? A party to a transaction needs to know the price of the transaction in order to make a rational consumption decision. In the case of "g" and "f," the end-user has no notion of price - and really not much of an idea that they are even party to a transaction. I suppose it's not all that different from the old network television business model. Perhaps we should not be too surprised if the quality of ad-funded internet services converges to the quality of ad-funded (pre-cable) network TV programming in its heyday. In addition to the ethical dimensions, does this not also set the stage for a form of market failure?

A party to a transaction needs to know the price of the transaction in order to make a rational consumption decision. In the case of “g” and “f,” the end-user has no notion of price – and really not much of an idea that they are even party to a transaction.

I suppose it’s not all that different from the old network television business model. Perhaps we should not be too surprised if the quality of ad-funded internet services converges to the quality of ad-funded (pre-cable) network TV programming in its heyday.

]]> By: Emanuel Derman http://blogs.reuters.com/emanuelderman/2012/02/20/the-a-word/#comment-274 Emanuel Derman Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:43:30 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/emanuelderman/?p=730#comment-274 Thanks, that is helpful. Thanks, that is helpful.

]]> By: runnerup http://blogs.reuters.com/emanuelderman/2012/02/20/the-a-word/#comment-272 runnerup Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:01:54 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/emanuelderman/?p=730#comment-272 there are numerous simple tools and browser addons out there which makes Internet ad free and less tracking of people. There are search engines which unlike google do not track users or shove ads down their throats however most people don't know about them because such tools do not 'advertise' themselves, a number of them are introduced here: http://donttrack.us/ there are numerous simple tools and browser addons out there which makes Internet ad free and less tracking of people. There are search engines which unlike google do not track users or shove ads down their throats

however most people don’t know about them because such tools do not ‘advertise’ themselves,

a number of them are introduced here:
http://donttrack.us/

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