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Swartzy · October 31, 2023

Rich1878 said:
Got rid of both a few years back. Best decision in ages

Never started, so I'm good there...

ClausThomsen · October 31, 2023

chrismpw said:
I'll ditch them in a shot if ads increase. Only if people vote with their (metaphorical feet) will such rubbish be ditched. Of course there are enough stupids on the planet to go along with any exploitative scheme for it to succeed. Look at sky ffs.

Remember when the Internet had zero ads and still worked? I do.

Yes - it was incredibly slow, lacked the ability to display a lot of what it does now and you lost your connection when someone picked up the phone. The phone bill was worse than ads. There were still quite a lot of banner ads knocking about as well - not as intrusive but still....ads.

Ads may be a route to profitability for many sites but for some they are a necessary evil to keep the lights on. Servers aren't free and the boom in traffic and data compared to back in the day makes hosting an expensive business.

Ads on FB etc won't bother me. Tried FB once for 20 minutes years ago and couldn't understand why anyone would want it in their lives. Absolute garbage.

DavidH · October 31, 2023

JLW said:
The classic taking a photo to post but before hand removing ye birds knickers from the radiator (take it again) and getting the best angle that makes your house look nice! Or the arl 'traffics horrendous on the M6' whilst making sure they get their Audi or BMW sign in on the steering wheel.

Yep, stuff like that makes me hate humanity. Attention seeking thundercrabs. Early morning gym selfies as well. Nobody cares whatsoever you Chong beak all weekend round some scrotes flat with his mates so one gym visit on a Wednesday morning and a picture of you frying some for in a wok doesn't make you mum of the year.

GrandOldTeam · October 31, 2023

Facebook has to make money to exist.

It either does it through your data/ads, or subscriptions.

Ads are on borrowed time.

You'll see more and more introducing subscriptions.

Initially as reward+"to comply with regulations"+"to combat spam/state sponsored spam", before eventually - a paywall.

davep · October 31, 2023

GrandOldTeam said:
Facebook has to make money to exist.

It either does it through your data/ads, or subscriptions.

Ads are on borrowed time.

You'll see more and more introducing subscriptions.

Initially as reward+"to comply with regulations"+"to combat spam/state sponsored spam", before eventually - a paywall.

Ads will never die (look at film and tv), but certainly a subscription plus ads model is going to become more and more prevalent across all different types of media etc.

Charro · October 31, 2023

I like instagram.

GrandOldTeam · October 31, 2023

davep said:
Ads will never die (look at film and tv), but certainly a subscription plus ads model is going to become more and more prevalent across all different types of media etc.

By ads on borrowed time I meant as the main rev. The likes of Twitter isn't sustainable by ads alone.

Subs are being introduced because ad revenue is collapsing/not sustainable.

Take GOT (and other fan sites, click here - "Our traditional revenue streams from advertising are diminishing due to decreasing marketing budgets for web-based platforms and the widespread increase in use of ad-blocking software, which is a killer for independent websites.") - we introduced subs and shop years back because as costs/audience numbers were increasing, ad revenue was falling.