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Offer a paid option such that consumers who want to pay for privacy / less ads / no ads can The problem is that the customers with disposable income to pay to
by gaius 8y ago
Offer a paid option such that consumers who want to pay for privacy / less ads / no ads can
The problem is that the customers with disposable income to pay to see no ads are exactly the people that admen want to reach. So it's unlikely that any ad-supported company will offer this. It would be as good as admitting to their real customers that their inventory (i.e. us) was of "low quality".
- jvzr 8y agoI am also the type of users who dismiss any and every ads I see (after ad blocking), such as the infuriating Instagram Ads. I always dismiss & report them. I figured at some point Facebook would see that I don't want to see them, and cease wasting advertisers money on me, but I suppose Facebook doesn't really care who it shows its ads to, as long as the advertisers already paid. I don't understand why advertisers keep paying, though.
- chiefalchemist 8y agoIf YouTube can offer a no ads model then it can't be impossible. Mind you, Google is likely doing other trickery. But certainly there's got to be alternatives to ad blockers, etc.
- diggernet 8y agoAnd the customers who pay to see no ads are also exactly the people who would refuse to click on the ads anyway and likely also are running an ad blocker, so the admen would have lost nothing (and possibly gained from not paying for wasted impressions). Having a no-ad tier means you can reasonably argue that those getting ads have opted into them, and thus are more valuable to the advertisers.