Subj : Then, once you paid for p
To   : Arelor
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Nov 17 2025 11:04:19

  Re: Then, once you paid for p
  By: Arelor to Mindsurfer on Mon Nov 17 2025 09:41 am

 Ar> Advertisements suck because the Internet has conditioned people to believe
 Ar> everything is for free. Yay, filehosting is for free, email is for free,
 Ar> everything is for free. Except now the only way to make things work is by
 Ar> making them shitty as hell with advertisements and datamining. There is
 Ar> barely no room to bill for a service people gets from free tiers because
 Ar> people is used to not pay. That is the reason why Youtube is purposedly
 Ar> DESTROYING free video service, to force people to jump ship.

I don't think it conditions people to believe everything is for free.  People understand that watching ads is a cost of not having to pay money for something.  And advertisements are nothing new - Advertisements have been used for decades in television, newspapers, magazines, etc..  It's a way to provide income (or suppliment income) for the company making the content.

Many sites on the internet don't require users to pay money to use them, but they still need money to operate.  They make money by selling ads or by collecting user data that they sell.  Some sites do directly charge users a fee to use them so that they don't need to show ads or collect data (or maybe some do both).  This should not come as a surprise to anyone, as it's a system that has been in place for decades.

Nightfox

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