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I support your idea that software is often bloated. However, as usual you're doing the mistake of somehow thinking that you are a customer of Twitter's. Of cou
by unwind 10y ago
I support your idea that software is often bloated.
However, as usual you're doing the mistake of somehow thinking that you are a customer of Twitter's. Of course you're not, since you're not paying to use the service.
That turns things around so that you're the usual ad target product, meaning the app might swell to contain more candy to tease you into clicking, and so on.
Uh, and just to be clear I'm not meaning "you" in a very personal sense, this applies to me too when I use Twitter, of course. :)
- croon 10y agoI understand, but I have two counter points: * I disabled UO, and I can see no ads on twitter, other than the occasional promoted tweet. * Ads can be served very discretely (as pointed out above), and doesn't have to "bloat" a client from a sub-1MB to a 20MB app. Ads also doesn't have to adversely affect (much) how fast something loads. A third point would be how much gain ads actually drive, but that's another discussion.