Ads in Free Services
The cluster discusses debates on introducing ads to free tiers of services for monetization, skepticism about companies maintaining ad-free promises especially for paid users, and the role of advertising in business models versus user experience.
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Seems weird I would think if they were serving ads they would not want to potentially turn away some users.
it doesn't create significant value for end users with advertising
who in their right mind would give up tens of billions of ad revenue? the ads are coming no matter what.
Eventually paying users will get ads too.
Seems like the sane thing to do with would be put ads on those using the service for free.
Maybe they want to offer free service, but monetized by ads?
why no ads though? don't they give you reach and discovery to people? for so as long your profits are higher than ads cost, you are profitable, so why not?
People want stuff for free more than they hate ads... ads aren't going anywhere.
Ironic to show ads only to your users with the least spending power. Me thinks this will not last. Once the ads get “good enough” they will be everywhere.
Is it pointless though if e.g. there are no ads?