• null@piefed.nullspace.lol
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    1 day ago

    Network effect. And most people’s tolerance for ads is crazy high.

    So those people can chat with me through a Matrix bridge while I wear my hazmat suit.

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      Yeah but it’s exactly that tolerance that I don’t understand – on an emotional level.

      Sure I can rationally construct reasons for why this has developed in this way and why people got used to it, but I can’t get entirely get rid of this initial “how can the third ad in 20 minutes of video not make you furious?” reaction.

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        1 day ago

        I can only assume it’s a frog in a pot of boiling water type situation for people that haven’t just used ad-blockers since their creation.

        Also a lot of people just pay for premium to remove them instead.