• SkyNTP@lemmy.ca
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    I despise Twitter’s leadership as much as the rest, but increasing ads is not at all a “cause a problem” situation Twitter doesn’t owe you ad-free usage of their platform. So no, not a scam/scummy behaviour, just bad value.

    And you don’t owe Twitter your patronage. So just move on from it.

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      You do realize that the actual issue is that this is kind of thing is going to be normalized, so that it can spread like a plague across the corporate-touched internet, objectively making the entire thing as a whole objectively worse… right?

      Because it sure doesn’t seem like it with that reply.

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        Reddit is already following in footsteps of twitter. unsurprising but worrying because they could influence other companies to do the same

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      increasing ads is not at all a “cause a problem” situation

      Tech executives would disagree with you - creating a problem that users have to buy their way out of is one of the most popular business models going at the moment. The mobile gaming industry, for example, is basically $140B worth of intentionally created frustration.

      There’s been so much written about this obviously scummy practice. It’s everywhere.

      It’s either naive or disingenuous to suggest they’re not obviously trying to annoy cash out of people.

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      They are allowed to try and monetize in various ways, but there are still ethical standards that are just consistently not followed in online advertising (like doing due-diligence to make sure the company advertising isn’t some sort of transparent scam). But this change seems to be stepping away from one of the standards that is actually a legal mandate, properly labeling adverts and sponsored content as such.

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      Even if X wasn’t trying to make a profit. They still have cost to cover.

      I don’t use it. Never have. Never saw any value in it.

      I still have yet to understand Elon’s strategy with it but it’s his billions to waste.

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        It’s actually not his billions. He borrowed billions to finance the purchase. There are talks of the banks stepping in to protect their investment.