• Kittengineer@lemmy.world
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      I’m fine with ads. It costs money to run servers and build out the platform.

      I’m not fine with the absolutely sleezy way spez handled the api changes and the ridiculous price. Utterly disrespectful to the mods, third party app devs, and Reddit users.

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          Problem is that such isn’t a stable source of income.

          Though I guess Wikipedia makes it work. So I dunno.

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        Just because things cost money doesn’t mean that ads are the best way to pay for them, or that we have to accept advertising as part of the process. I ABHOR advertising, but I don’t mind signing up to support someone on Patreon, like I’m doing with the developer of the instance I’m on.

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          I love the lack of ads, but I suppose I could live with them as long as they were clearly distinguished from real user content. I hated those reddit ads that were from a reddit account and looked like just another post if you didn’t pay attention to the flair.

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          I honestly don’t even mind targeted ads, just sleezy ones. Targeted ads means I get ads for GPUs instead of health insurance.

          What really annoys me is how many shitty off-the-mark ads I get from Google, despite the fact that they ought to know literally everything about me. Like, if you’re going to massively invade my privacy, why aren’t you even using that information?