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A comment on Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users. Parent comment

Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by the_gipsy on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:50PM (#19394685)
Whales have nothing to do with ads.
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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by novaleaf on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:41AM (#19399110)
kids are ad whales.

from my own observations (2 pre-teen kids) they are infinently patient in sitting through ad after in order to keep playing.

I used to freely install any highly rated free-to-play educational game. Now I only install paid stuff, as those don't have these pathological ads.

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