I just realized I’m taking my ad-free experience in Lemmy for granted. It’s refreshing to have a little corner of the internet that doesn’t slam you with advertising.
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My ublock origin icon has been at a steady 0 ads blocked in my entire time browsing Lemmy. It feels weird.
On several sites that counter climbs like crazy. I’m watching a YouTube video right now that’s only 12 minutes long. The uBlock counter just hit 60.
I have a youtube tab open, it’s currently at 498 blocks. After writing that, 503.
I haven’t had this page up very long today, but apparently YouTube is on an advertising roll at the moment.
Added bonus: I’m one of the three people in the world who pays for YouTube premium… so the quantity of ads should be much lower.
Oh hey, I’m one of the other two, lol. I think they probably lose money on us at this point, with the amount of ads they serve.
Then you wonder why those sites are so slow sometimes…
Soon, when things go smoother, I absolutely wouldn’t mind either having ads or paying a low annual fee.
The problem with Reddit was seeking out vulture capital. Turning a small profit, enough to pay people something resembling wages, isn’t a bad thing.
The start of ads seems to always lead to a path of enshitification. One of the reasons I really like jellyfin is because they realized this and intentionally disabled recurrent donations. They saw what it does to Plex and saw the eventually the leadership’s will try to sell out and sell the company or IPO.
Jellyfin saw the way every service seemed to go once the revenue picked up and decided they want to prevent that.
plenty of instances including mine and some massive ones like lemmy.world are fully funded by donations.There’s absolutely no need for ads
Using lemmy is well worth the $5 per month I give them.
There’s a bit of app in your ads.
Wow, I didn’t even notice that.
Yeah cool. Good way to caught your attention. Make ads bigger.
And make the app buggy so it mistake your scrolling with click
Spez thinks that redditors are junkies who are hooked and can’t leave. It was easier than I thought it would be to leave. I only log in once a week for 5 minutes to delete any posts or comments they’ve restored against my will.
obligatory “charge yo damn phone.”
It is too crazy for a company as big as Reddit to make a pretty good app that will make you not want to install 3rd party ones? well, seems like it is…
the hilarious part is the entire Reddit app is built on top of Alien Blue, which used to be the de-facto best Reddit app ever. They bought the entire app out way back in 2014 and built the current slow, buggy, security-hole-infested clusterfuck right over the top of what used to be a good app. During the official app beta, every beta tester complained about every problem they still have- poor battery life, shitty performance, unintuitive and space-inefficient UI, excessive ad placement. Reddit made exactly zero changes as a result of this feedback. Nothing has ever been truely fixed.
They could have done literally nothing but put a tiny bit more advertising in to Alien Blue and made every other 3rd party app basically become irrelevant. But no. They are simply outright incompetent and driven by standard corporate middle managers chasing the next KPI.
Fuck Reddit. Fuck Reddit.
They are simply outright incompetent and driven by standard corporate middle managers chasing the next KPI.
Recent comments from the CEO confirm it. Bloodless money-grubbing techbro shitbag.
What a garbage C-team Reddit has, such a shame
Seriously thought for a second there when scrolling that lemmy had added ads
It was a horrible feeling man
The author of Lemmy is really tired of ads and big tech so will never happen. :)
Its FOSS as well, so even if they introduce ads for some insane reason, we can fork the software and de-federate the new “adiverse.”
Wait, I can redeem cash prizes?!?
You sure can! You can redeem your prize by selling your account to your closest advertiser!
