It could also alienate your audience when you inevitable shift towards the more profitable side, which is beeing business friendly and not human friendly.
By targetting, I’m talking about serving different ads to different users. Of course when an ad is created it targets a specific audience but thats not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about collecting user data for the purpose of targeting them with specific ads.
Ie- User is a young male, so show sports betting ads vs this is an ad for a vpn, serve it to everyone
Unpopular take: dumb, non-targetted, ads could create revenue for server providers which may increase service quality and availability
It could also alienate your audience when you inevitable shift towards the more profitable side, which is beeing business friendly and not human friendly.
Agree and only if theres a shift. Distrowatch has had ads for decades for example
I’d rather walk away from Lemmy.
If ads started to come on Lemmy, I would just stop using Lemmy itself and do everything through RSS.
If RSS would not work anymore, I would probably just leave.
Remember: eventually YOU pay for the ads. And ads are ALWAYS targeted , there is no such thing as non-targeted ads.
By targetting, I’m talking about serving different ads to different users. Of course when an ad is created it targets a specific audience but thats not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about collecting user data for the purpose of targeting them with specific ads.
Ie- User is a young male, so show sports betting ads vs this is an ad for a vpn, serve it to everyone
look at 4chan’s ads for an example of non targeted ads