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None of the businesses that I have run have ever made money by advertising...

• eevilspock 13y ago
  Excellent. I was of course using the royal "we". I don't work for an ad-supported product either. Anymore at least. I quit. Still, even with my hardcore stance against it, I take advantage of many "free" ad supported products rather than supporting businesses by paying directly. Perhaps you are better than I.
  • icebraining 13y ago
    As long as you don't buy stuff based on ads, and unless the product benefits from network effects, you are just making ad-supported products less profitable by using them, and hence contributing to their demise - either the ads are pay-per-click, and then you are just raising its costs without providing returns, or they're pay-per-view and then you're making the ads less valuable for advertisers (and hence less profitable for the service). It's the people clicking on the ads that are keeping them alive.