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Can you think of any content (software, for example) that is produced without advertising?

• pjmlp 6y ago
  No, but that doesn't mean content producers have other sources of income, specially when those consuming it aren't willing to pay them.
  • jka 6y ago
    Agreed; so figuring out how to sustainably meet (and ideally exceed) people's basic needs is important to safeguard content production. Meanwhile, I don't think consumer expectation of free service is likely to change, and expect there's a market for ad-free reimplementations of existing services.
    • aabbcc1241 6y ago
      I've seen some ad-free alternative, but they usually have much less budget on promoting themselves, so harder to reach the critical mass (for network effect)
• aabbcc1241 6y ago
  For example our content on HN (although a portion of them are advertisement, not that that hard sales.)