Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds

Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by Tepix on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @06:48AM (#46525303)

You paid for your hardware. But did you pay for all the services you use (like search engines, games, mail, other services)?

If not, how do you think they should make money?

(I don't like ads myself).

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Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by nananana9 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:49AM (#46526327)

> If not, how do you think they should make money?

Figure it out or go bankrupt, for all I care. They're the ones who chose a business model directly adversarial to their users.

Plenty of games, mail and other services work without ads already, I'm sure if we're one day lucky enough to see Google go belly up someone will fill that hole as well.

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