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I think this is the bigger issue. It's the double-dipping from both ends — getting money from the consumer and getting more money from advertisers. It's like ca
by Spartan-S63 5y ago
I think this is the bigger issue. It's the double-dipping from both ends — getting money from the consumer and getting more money from advertisers. It's like cable television all over.
Why can't they:
1. Be less greedy
2. Raise the price so I can be guaranteed to see no ads
- solaceb 5y agoIt would be even better if they didn't leverage their success in one industry (advertising) by publicly posing solely as another kind of company (social media) in order to buy up other companies (Oculus) to make a lateral entrance into VR, an industry unrelated from advertising, just to pollute it with more advertising. This whole thing is shady IMO from top to bottom and just another aspect of 2021 tech which makes me think we really collectively failed to prevent the wonder of computing from just being another instrument to extract capital from the people and give it to the powerful
- latexr 5y agoBased on the accounts in The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality[1], I don’t get the feeling Facebook had to “pose solely as another kind of company”. By the point Oculus was in conversations to sell to Facebook, their shadiness was already a concern. [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34017056-the-history-of-the-future https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34017056-the-history-...
- kardos 5y agoOr have two price points, one ad-free and one ad-supported