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The fact that having ads on a product designed for reading is so dystopian. A great new term has recently entered the lexicon to describe this: https://en.wiki
by Flere-Imsaho 5mo ago
The fact that having ads on a product designed for reading is so dystopian. A great new term has recently entered the lexicon to describe this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
- u_fucking_dork 5mo agoHave you never read a magazine or a newspaper? Ads have been in products designed for reading for your entire life. And it’s an ad on the lock screen, not an ad interrupting your reading. I buy the ad free versions though.
- squeaky-clean 5mo agoI'm reading a book by Asimov at the moment, printed 1989. The first page is an ad for a Robert Silverberg book adaptation of the Nightfall short story. Pages 2-3 are ads for other Asimov books. The last 5 pages are an excerpt of Edge of Eternity. And the final page is an advertisement for Voice of the Planet, a "5 episode TBS miniseries starring William Shatner and Faye Dunaway"