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Good luck with that. The ones that can afford an ad-free internet are the same group as the ones that can afford the product you are trying to sell. Promoted li

Good luck with that. The ones that can afford an ad-free internet are the same group as the ones that can afford the product you are trying to sell. Promoted links, selection/ordering of posts and other mechanisms will be use to lead ad-free people to the ads, in ways that won't look like ads. It's like gravity, there are forces in play that will make things end in the same way.

nojs 3y ago
You could argue that unless the $10/mo subscription offers a dumb chronological feed then it’s not really ad-free. On the other hand consider YouTube - you pay to remove the annoyance, not the algorithmic bias, and a lot of people are happy to do that.
- pierat 3y ago
  > You could argue that unless the $10/mo subscription offers a dumb chronological feed That's around what I pay to the maintainer of the Mastodon server I'm on. And I get that nice dumb chronological feed. Oh, and it's ad-free. For everyone. It's amazing seeing Ublock Origin with "nothing blocking". The true ad-free internet exists. But it doesn't exist within the FAANG space.
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