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I fear we as users have been trained as well and perpetuate it. People generally don't want to pay, so we're the product, advertising pays ... the whole ecosystem is a mess.


It doesn't matter if you want to pay or not. These companies need to make more money than they did the previous quarter. So they need to always find new way to exploit continuously.


Plenty of apps and services are happy to take money and have no advertising and etc.


Source?

Even Apple eventually caved in and is now starting to turn towards the advertising route.


You need a source for apps that’s take money and don’t have ads?


Sure. But what will be their model in 5-10 years?




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