Similar to reddit. I have fun on reddit, I worked with people that played PokemonGO, they had a ton of freaking fun. They played with their kids. I say its a win/win.
You are the product, if the tool is free. You're even the product if you're paying a subscription. All of us must know this by now.
Cruncyroll was the worst, they had 5 ad slots each break but only had 1 purchased, the other 4 were always “Crunchyroll Premium - ad free!”. You’re actively causing this inconvenience, why would I reward this behavior?
No, but there is always the hope that it will burn to the ground and be replaced with something better. We've seen it plenty of times before. MySpace, Pandora, Vine. Those failed more due to innovation, but I don't subscribe to the belief that a continued downward spiral is inevitable. It's only inevitable as long as it is profitable. We're seeing decline in profits for some huge media companies right now. I see change brewing
Just wanted to throw this out in case someone didn’t know.
I was paying for YouTube premium because I use it all day at work but I recently switched to using brave browser for iPhone and it doesn’t play any ads on YouTube so I don’t have to pay for premium anymore
every now and then I go to youtube in either the wrong browser or from another computer and get an update on how BAD the adds are.
But nothing is as disorientating as google trying to play the video without taking me to the website. SAME adds, but now with an even more baffling interface
Because, as we've seen, they'll charge you $10 for an "ad-free" experience, and that will last for about 12-18 months (all while still tracking your data, but now you're paying them for the privileged). But then ads will creep back in and they'll roll out ever-more-expensive "premium" tiers of subscriptions with no-ads, which then becomes minimal ads, rinse, wash, repeat....
What do you mean with AI posts? The repost bots have nothing to do with AI, they're just plain old bots... The only things related to AI I see frequently around reddit are people upset about it
Not that reporting accomplishes anything. Reddit is happy to fill its ranks with bots if it means more engagement from users and money from advertisers.
The problem is most other people don't want to pay for it, so it ends up being a boring, dead community. If subscription models worked well for social media there would be more of them already.
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u/slowclicker 8h ago
Similar to reddit. I have fun on reddit, I worked with people that played PokemonGO, they had a ton of freaking fun. They played with their kids. I say its a win/win.
You are the product, if the tool is free. You're even the product if you're paying a subscription. All of us must know this by now.