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You're justifying the abuse of people's privacy because they can't afford to buy out of it. That might be legal for the moment but it is in no way moral.

• damnyou 6y ago
  I'm not justifying anything, I'm merely stating what I think is an unequivocally positive side effect of advertising-based models: they have automatic price discrimination built in. Subscription models do not have it built in—developers have to do extra work to introduce price discrimination. I think this is a demerit of subscription models, though not one that outweighs the demerits of advertising models.
  • airstrike 6y ago
    > they have automatic price discrimination built in. How, exactly? It's entirely opaque to the user. At a minimum, you should offer a free, ad-supported version alongside a paid, ad-free (and tracking free) experience.
  • inetknght 6y ago
    > an unequivocally positive side effect of advertising-based models Democracies are bought on advertising. Hiding the price of the user's attention is not a positive side effect to the user. Hiding who buys the user's attention is not a positive side effect to the user. Hiding how many other people's attentions are also being sold is not a positive side effect to the user. All of these are detriments to the user.
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