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If ads are truly so useful, perhaps they should withhold them unless you pay $3/mo. Oh right. They are a negative user experience and bring revenue in without
by dismalpedigree 4y ago
If ads are truly so useful, perhaps they should withhold them unless you pay $3/mo.
Oh right. They are a negative user experience and bring revenue in without providing any value (possibly negative value) to the user.
Nothing groundbreaking here, but lets not pretend this is anything but a money grab.
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- ipaddr 4y agoThey do as most newspapers are not free at the newsstand. To get those local classified ads you have to pay. They can be a negative or positive depending on the ad and when/where you see it Some people love to see new products and ads show those.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoThere are some free ones but they're also 90% ads :p Then again I used to subscribe to tech magazines back in the day, and you can think of the articles and reviews as well thought out and curated ads. (At least the good magazines).
- chrismorgan 4y agoMy regional local paper (where “local” means “it’s headquartered in a town of 20,000 people 100km away from myself and has a catchment area of maybe 50,000 people”), titled The Weekly Advertiser, is consistently almost exactly 75% ads by surface area (measured on a few different occasions).
- SoftTalker 4y agoYep, back when I was into photography (which was well before the web existed) I would buy photography magazines mainly for the ads. Same with the Computer Shopper, it was almnost entirely ads and people paid for it.
- otabdeveloper4 4y agoThey're immensely useful and important for business owners. (Just wait until you become a small business owner and get to experience the advertising landscape from the other side.)