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Folks who are reacting with > ugh I hate ads. Bye ChatGPT subscription! I would recommend reading the article in full. The gist is all of these efforts are i
by mvkel 2y ago
Folks who are reacting with
> ugh I hate ads. Bye ChatGPT subscription!
I would recommend reading the article in full.
The gist is all of these efforts are in exchange for realtime browsing. In other words: if you ask it "who won this weekend's f1 race?" It can browse ESPN for the answer, then tell you "here's what ESPN says."
Exactly like you'd see on Google. Or, you know, ESPN.com.
Certainly a better experience than "I'm sorry, as of my knowledge cutoff date..."
To conflate that experience with heavy product placement and non-useful assistant answers, it just tells me that you didn't read the article.
- drawkward 2y agoThe people who are reacting with > ugh I hate ads. Bye ChatGPT subscription! are merely two years ahead of you in the product lifecycle. All advertising is spam. It is a cancer that gobbles up all host environments until nothing but ad content is left.
- mvkel 2y agoThe web you enjoy today would simply not exist without advertising.
- drawkward 2y agoI don't enjoy the web today; I curse the way it has been enshittified. I accept that, because I live in a society, much of what is necessary is currently most frictionlessly accomplished in this psychologically manipulative hellscape. I enjoyed the web of 3 decades ago, prior to advertising.
- mvkel 2y agoThe web of 3 decades ago, so 1994, when the entire web was 3,000 websites? I feel like the world has collectively forgotten that the web has virtually always been ad-supported. The entire dot com boom and bust was all about ads, and -that- started in 1995. If you want that 1994 web feeling again, BBSs are alive and well
- drawkward 2y agoYes, the web of 3 decades ago. The pre-advertising web. When there were barriers to entry. When there weren't bots, driven by profit motives. I don't know why you continue to debate my lived experiences and personal preferences.