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Yeah, because everyone is asking for that. They will force ads into everything they can, because Google is an Ad company.

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I’m a product designer who has worked on a lot of products that have been monetized with ads.

It’s pretty common for a company to split their revenue targets between register sales and monetization deals. You break even on the hardware, and make profit on the ads.

[–] dmtalon 8 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I sure would like the option to pay for the HW/profits up front and not have perpetual ads.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Amazon actually have you this option with the original Kindle. They sold two different versions where the only difference was that the cheaper one would show ads.

[–] dmtalon 1 points 2 years ago

Hah, ya I had one of the ad free Kindle and even commented on it form a second thread in here

https://infosec.pub/comment/6149270

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