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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by eudamoniac on Saturday February 28, 2026 @01:16PM (#47198494)
All you are saying here is that the sites with ads are so much better than the actually-free sites that people still use them despite having ads. Which is maybe not a signal that ads need to be banned.
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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by bubblewand on Saturday February 28, 2026 @04:08PM (#47200248)
I’m saying that actually-free services and sites have no budget for promotion and become very hard to discover when drowned out by tons of ad-supported options, which drives down use, which discourages participation in improving them which suppresses how good they tend to be.
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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe on Saturday February 28, 2026 @06:18PM (#47201540)
In a world with add it's not the best site that wins but the site that games mass psychology the best.
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