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No-ad services are no longer possible. The very fact that you are willing to pay for a service signals advertisers that you have purchasing power. The more you
by hliyan 5y ago
No-ad services are no longer possible. The very fact that you are willing to pay for a service signals advertisers that you have purchasing power. The more you pay to keep ads out, the more advertisers will pay to put them back in. This will only get worse until some sort of socioeconomic paradigm shift takes place.
- slver 5y agoAds are not that profitable per user. So as companies like Apple show, no-ad services are working great, and have great ROI.
- thatfunkymunki 5y agoapple has rather annoying ads in their app store though, so maybe not as successful as you think.
- lucasmullens 5y agoNo longer possible? There's tons and tons of websites and apps that have paid subscriptions, most of which don't have ads after subscribing. If I'm willing to pay $50/mo to remove ads from Facebook, that just says what the ads are worth to me, not to the advertiser. Advertisers won't pay any price to show me an ad for Pepsi.
- hliyan 5y agoI hope to god you're right. But, a counterpoint from an adjacent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27620036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27620036