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• maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The problem is that ad-driven businesses are price dumping by tricking people into using their services by telling them it’s free, and thus killing the market for everyone else. I am not turning my adblocker off. I do not expect “free” content in perpetuity. I expect the “free” content business model to die off.

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  • Goronmon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I expect the “free” content business model to die off.

    I don’t. I expect the vast majority of people will continue to demand free content while simultaneously complaining about the quality of said content.

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, unfortunately many people seem to default to complaining about things while continuing to consume what they are fed. And not change anything, of course.

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• atro_city@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I disagree. Ads are not the answer. Treating them as such is simply giving up.

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  • Goronmon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Agreed, ads are not the answer. Paying for content is the answer.

    But people want their content to be free, while also being angry that there free content contains ads.

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    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bro $4,000 OLED TVs are riddled with rows of home screen ads. What are you talking about that paid content has no ads? ALL CONTENT HAS FUCKING ADS. This has gotten absurd. Fuck ads.

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      • Goronmon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What are you talking about that paid content has no ads?

        The article that OP posted is on a site that allows you to pay and from what I can tell doesn’t have any obvious ads that I’ve seen.

        But at the end of the day, find a site you like, pay for the content if you can and run an ad-blocker.

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    • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because content distributors haven't thought of another way to get money. The only other thing they came up with is subscriptions. Some have thought of donations, but they haven't banded together to come up with an alternative. It's weak and totally mid.

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      • WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Literally what other options are there?

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i’ll turn off my adblocker when i can be confident that your site won’t show me ads for child porn or actual fucking scams.

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  • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And not make the site impossible to use.

    Most sites nowadays its impossible to actually read a goddamn article without 5 pop in videos and ad breaks.

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• Facebones@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is the big one. people have grown accustomed to an unsustainable system, problem is wages are still so stagnanted so nobody has money for 10 subs to things.

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• Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I disable my adblocker on RPS. They also have a subscriber system which works well I reckon (although I don’t partake)

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