cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Ads should be illegal TBH.
Who needs that in their life? If your product can’t stand on its own merit and you need to bathe swaths of the general public with nonsense to sell anything then maybe your product deserves to fail?
I’d rather a service be funded by ads, because if not, they’ll have to find some other way to make money, which could include:
- Paywalling - I won’t use it then.
- Selling your personal information egregiously - I don’t mind when a company has the information I give them, but if they’re relying on selling it as their primary income, it’s probably going to lead to something shady.
- Cryptocurrency mining - I don’t want my computer to heat up while I’m trying to watch YouTube videos, as I often do that to let my computer cool down between games.
Guys, its my turn to post this tomorrow!
Thanks for taking one for the team!
All of the people still using Reddit who called protesters whiners and power hungry mods are going to realize what we were protesting soon enough. Dumbshits. Enjoy the show, it’s gonna keep getting worse.
Maybe they won’t, maybe they’ll just stay addicted to clicking on bot generated content, and arguing with bots. Reddit has become yet another website that drives unhealthy and toxic behaviours, because profit, and it can be hard for people to get out of that. Honestly, thank fuck all this API stuff finally made a bunch of us leave, because I’m glad I’m out of there and over here, it’s such a relief.
You’re absolutely right - many of them aren’t going to realize and never were. Most people just eat what they’re served.
Personally, I’ve wasted far too much of my life fucking around with such people, and I don’t want them in my social media. They can stay over there and like it.
The newest update for Jerboa cleaned it up so nicely and fixed all the little issues I’d been having with it over the past month. So happy to have made the switch when I did. It feels so much more complete now!
Found this cute little mammal with my nick name in its name a couple years ago, now it’s an App. I’m in!
