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I think that's pretty obvious, no? Behavioral controls. You add a web cam screenshot to that desktop screenshot and sell real attention signals to advertisers.


They already tried that with the XBox One Kinect. That one did backfire quite hard.


That was then, this is now. Everyone abandoned Digg because of a level of censorship that modern reddit makes look benign.


If censorship is the problem, why hasn't reddit been abandoned for no-censorship alternatives?

Are things not all sunshine and roses and a million flowers blooming in them?


Why do something annoying once when you can do it twice for twice the outrage?


Just because it failed in the past doesn't mean they won't retry again and again. It only needs to succeed once.




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