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I'm amazed at how angry people are at ads. I agree that this change would be terrible purely because of the customization thing, but people at some point are going to have to realise that there is no such thing as free lunch. You're using their service/web site, they say you have to pay by watching ads and thats the deal you have. If you don't like it, don't use it, because if ads weren't a thing, the whole internet would be paywalled (apart from the sites people host from their own cash/donations). The internet and big tech has for so long taken the stance to grow fast make money later, but many never do. I feel like the time of reckoning is soon upon a large part of the internet, where if they don't make money, they'll vanish.
Edit: just so I clear it up before anybody starts yelling at me about it, I am very much against this change for multiple reasons, but it's just that it triggered me to see so many people attacking the wrong thing. We've just become spoiled by unsustainable startup practices and have lost touch with reality.
Here's a website for a newspaper that I was trying tonread earlier. See if you can spot any actual text from the article.
This is a non-argument. The fact the website is shit has nothing to do with the fact that ads are the payment method. If you don't like the site, don't use it. Nobody is forcing you.
If you saw a product in the store that costs double another equal product, would you go scream at the manager that this is outrageous? Or would you just buy the cheaper one and let the more expensive one go out of business.
Yes, an ad blocker would make the site more usable, but so would just taking the product without paying.
I started wondering if I missed out a world where stuff comes free. (Although this doesn't stop me from hating irrelevant "sales pushing" efforts. I think most people just hate the irrelevant part, hopefully)