• VegaLyrae@kbin.social
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    Oh boy, what can’t we put ads in?

    Can we get MtDew Green Lights with Coca-Cola Red lights?

    The spacebar on laptops is free game, just asking for it.

    It really is a shame that I can still buy bedsheets that aren’t branded with a corporate advertising campaign.

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      1 year ago

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      Time has shown that people would rather watch ads than pay money for digital goods and services.

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        Because the pricing is fucking ridiculous for the ad free version of things. And even then, ad-free usually means ad-free for a limited time until the profit line starts to slow down.

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          If you make full use of a YouTube Premium family plan, each person pays around $4/month.

          Is that a ridiculous price?

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    In September, Cathcart categorically denied a report from Financial Times saying that the Meta-owned chat app plans to show ads.

    “The reason I qualified [sic] the answer is that there could be ads in other places — channels or status.

    WhatsApp had talked about putting ads in Status a few years ago, but the company never rolled it out.

    A Meta spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch it’s not currently testing Status ads in any country.

    Meta hasn’t provided any details about when or if it plans to launch ads in either product, Status or Channels.

    Until now, WhatsApp, which is used by more than 2 billion people across the world, has relied on its business messaging and click-to-WhatsApp ads on other platforms like Facebook for revenue.


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