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Re:“User engagement” is code for “addiction” by PontifexMinimus on Thursday March 04, 2021 @10:14PM (#26352132)
> Paid services to align interests with the user (best user experience wins) are the way to go

I agree; aligning interests is important.

> I really hope they win out in the long run

It's hard for me to see how they can. Advertising supported services are free to the user, which improves take-up which means that network effects are in their favour.

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Re:“User engagement” is code for “addiction” by ceh123 on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:56AM (#26359031)
Hope they can and believe they will are definitely not the same in this case. I do hope we get some great competition for paid alternatives in all sorts of categories, but I agree that it's a long shot for these types of services to win in most markets.

Ad supported free services will (unfortunately) always dominate network effect driven spaces.

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