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I'm fine with looking for alternatives to advertising, but so far nothing has been successful. People are choosing ads.

• 93po 3y ago
  It’s almost like there’s hundreds of billions of dollars at play to make people incentivized to push ad ecosystems as much as possible
  • insanitybit 3y ago
    I think mobile ads are an obvious example of users choosing ads. Mobile apps can almost never actually charge money - people will not pay a dollar to download an app. But they'll happily accept advertisements in their app.
    • 93po 3y ago
      i avoid the app store like the plague because it's awful, but it's basically impossible to find options that aren't ad supported. and the lack of purchasing incentive has a lot of other factors into it as well aside from "i want ads". there's also massive user distrust in paying for apps because they're so often garbage in general i search for apps these days by googling for FOSS and filtering results to reddit.