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Re:Crypto firm BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout s... by Mistletoe on Monday November 28, 2022 @12:38PM (#33776628)
It’s crazy how I bypass all that with simple adblockers. I don’t think I ever see ads on Twitter. Five billion dollars spent on information asymmetry from users that don’t know how to block ads. I guess I don’t even think about the ad part and workers needed for it.
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Re:Crypto firm BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout s... by woodruffw on Monday November 28, 2022 @12:40PM (#33776671)
You (like me) are probably an outlier: over 90% of Twitter users probably use the Twitter apps, which make adblocking much harder (although not impossible -- people maintain mass ignorelists!).
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Re:Crypto firm BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout s... by karmakurtisaani on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:14PM (#33777216)
I also feel like people who know of and use adblockers are less likely to be persuaded by ads. So losing that segment is not such a big loss for a platform.
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