I think, by this point, almost everything on YouTube has some ad or another. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I think you spend 50 percent of your mental energy trying to defeat ad systems. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone at Google feels happy about it, but they've been in some sense, you know, enslaved to their business… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
You have to think back to the '90s. The computer was this terrible-looking thing that was trying to compete with the television.… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
When you think about normal advertising, it's just like, hey, here's a car and, you know, we don't know if you're looking… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Google's AdWords, they allow you to bid on words that people will type into the search engine, and they cost more or… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I think that's been really the key, the idea of trying to harness social capital for selling purposes. That we've let this… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I do think the best thing for companies like Google and Facebook, if they are afraid of this ethical trap of advertising,… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
There's a problem which is when you're trapped in your own identity and everything is really you, then you feel less freedom… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Let's say you're someone's phone, and you notice that your owner is drinking coffee at certain times of the day, just very… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Net neutrality is the principle that the service providers who control or access, who own the pipes, should not favor some content… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I think, year in, year out, Google is starting to get worse instead of better. I think this is happening to a… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Google has - at least at this point - maintained the line where it keeps organic results separate from the advertisements. But over time… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“JUST WHAT IS GOOGLE? In 1902, the New York Telephone Company opened the world’s first school for “telephone girls.” It was an exclusive institution… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“When we speak of living environments and their effects on us, then, we are often speaking too broadly—of the city, the countryside, and so… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Now, he doesn't control the media, but Donald Trump has been incredibly successful in having his face appear everywhere. You cannot go a day… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“In 1956, two psychologists, Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, would conclude that television’s representation of celebrities was carefully constructed to create an “illusion of… — tim wu Copy Share Image
“Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically,” — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it has very… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Advertising just keeps getting heavier and heavier and heavier. It doesn't have any natural limit, and we haven't found the place for the limit.… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
There's always people - it doesn't take many - who have a different psychological makeup than most of us who really get joy out… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
