In today’s “VC money makes anything okay, I guess”, when exactly was it that “we sell you cheap Viagra on the internet without a doctor’s visit” became a legitimate business model? That was like the canonical internet sketchcase industry!

That was somehow less legitimate than the X10, the wireless camera transparently pitched for hidden camera voyeurism that sponsored the entire web for like 6 months when they invented pop-ups!

But now I see like, serious businesses advertising on legitimate platforms and they just… do it.

Is… is the “taming of the Internet” just going to mean we stop doing sketchy stuff until the reputation wears off and then go back to doing it in the open with $150m funding rounds?