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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ads should be illegal TBH.

Who needs that in their life? If your product can't stand on its own merit and you need to bathe swaths of the general public with nonsense to sell anything then maybe your product deserves to fail?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's basically psychological assault, making you feel inadequate, taking up precious mental bandwidth, and feeding addictions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'd rather a service be funded by ads, because if not, they'll have to find some other way to make money, which could include:

  • Paywalling - I won't use it then.
  • Selling your personal information egregiously - I don't mind when a company has the information I give them, but if they're relying on selling it as their primary income, it's probably going to lead to something shady.
  • Cryptocurrency mining - I don't want my computer to heat up while I'm trying to watch YouTube videos, as I often do that to let my computer cool down between games.