Open source is the exception, and it’s important to note that.
Now you may be thinking “well duh”, but I’ve seen plenty of people, even fairly techy people, refuse to use good FOSS software because they think they’re being monetised somehow and that because there’s no ads, it must be from secret data theft.
You have unrealistic views of the common person’s technical acumen if you think this is going to have an impact of more than fraction of a percent, if that.
They also don’t need to know the technical side of it to say ‘wow, this app doesn’t work and/or it’s out of date’ to close it and go back to something that works/fits their use case, even if it has ads.
I’ve tried to get people to use FOSS alternatives, but most would rather it work with no effort and deal with a lesser experience than having to fight with it to make it do what the other app does natively.
It was generally believed about a year ago that ads would only show up in free products
It definitely was not lol. Ads have been in paid products for literal decades by this point.
You’re not going to be seeing an ad for plane tickets on the map - if you search for “burgers” you might get an ad for Burger King show up as a sponsored result at the top. That’s it, it’s just ads for companies that are relevant to what you searched for in the app.
Maybe in some products but not a lot. We didnt have ads in Netflix, we didnt have ads in cars, we didnt have ads in tv software and so on. You probably know this.
I dont see the point of pretending its not getting worse. A lot worse.
That’s a different story. You said that up until a year ago paid products didn’t have ads. That’s demonstrably false, we have decades of evidence to prove so.
I thought if people pay for things, like extreamly expensive Apple hardware, no ads can exist there? Must be confused or hearing things.
If you’re not paying, you’re the product. If you’re paying, you may still be the product.
Open source is the exception, and it’s important to note that.
Now you may be thinking “well duh”, but I’ve seen plenty of people, even fairly techy people, refuse to use good FOSS software because they think they’re being monetised somehow and that because there’s no ads, it must be from secret data theft.
and sometimes you don’t pay and aren’t the product, yay open source!
Enshitification isn’t a problem of people being bad at buying stuff.
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This isn’t Reddit. No need to be unnecessarily abrasive.
The business majors are about to learn an important lesson about open source.
Are they though? The top valued companies in the world are balls-deep in advertising and data collection.
Those companies need people to believe they don’t have a choice present them with a choice and watch the ad people freak the fuck out.
Lol, lmao even.
You have unrealistic views of the common person’s technical acumen if you think this is going to have an impact of more than fraction of a percent, if that.
They don’t need to know the technical side of it to understand “this is cheaper, it doesn’t have ads plastered everywhere”
They also don’t need to know the technical side of it to say ‘wow, this app doesn’t work and/or it’s out of date’ to close it and go back to something that works/fits their use case, even if it has ads.
I’ve tried to get people to use FOSS alternatives, but most would rather it work with no effort and deal with a lesser experience than having to fight with it to make it do what the other app does natively.
Who said that?
It was generally believed about a year ago that ads would only show up in free products, like Google search, or whatever.
Now we see them in cars, Apple software and all sorts of very expensive products.
Because its never enough ads.
It definitely was not lol. Ads have been in paid products for literal decades by this point.
You’re not going to be seeing an ad for plane tickets on the map - if you search for “burgers” you might get an ad for Burger King show up as a sponsored result at the top. That’s it, it’s just ads for companies that are relevant to what you searched for in the app.
Maybe in some products but not a lot. We didnt have ads in Netflix, we didnt have ads in cars, we didnt have ads in tv software and so on. You probably know this.
I dont see the point of pretending its not getting worse. A lot worse.
Cable tv has literally had ads for decades. Magazines have had ads for as long as they existed.
What world have you been living in?
Sure those things had ads, but you are seemingly ignoring the new places that have ads now.
But I dont care really if you see it or not. :)
That’s a different story. You said that up until a year ago paid products didn’t have ads. That’s demonstrably false, we have decades of evidence to prove so.
Oh fuck dude. You made coffee come out my nose.