As someone who grew up very poor and first got access to email via Juno's free ad based email client.
I've seen so many people over the years just absolutely shit on ad based models.
But ad based models are probably the least regressive approach to commercial offerings that we've seen work in the wild.
I love ads. If you are smart you don't have to see them. If you are poor and smart you get free services without ads so you don't fall behind.
I notice that there are no free open source providers of LLM services at this point, it's almost as if services that have high compute costs have to be paid for SOME HOW.
Hopefully we get a Juno for LLM soon so that whole cycle can start again.
I've seen so many people over the years just absolutely shit on ad based models.
But ad based models are probably the least regressive approach to commercial offerings that we've seen work in the wild.
I love ads. If you are smart you don't have to see them. If you are poor and smart you get free services without ads so you don't fall behind.
I notice that there are no free open source providers of LLM services at this point, it's almost as if services that have high compute costs have to be paid for SOME HOW.
Hopefully we get a Juno for LLM soon so that whole cycle can start again.