• 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
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    23 hours ago

    just out of curiosity. who do you think pays for the service, if you insist on getting it for free?

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      23 hours ago

      I feel like I’m not really understanding the question, but here ya go: The people who are willing to pay for it.

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        14 hours ago

        The people who are willing to pay for it.

        which, in this case, is the ad agency. hence the ad commenter i was replying to pretends seeing for the first time…

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            2 hours ago

            “free” service is usually paid for by advertisers (or by selling the personal data the service harvests from the users). So being surprised there are ads among the search results provided by “free” service makes it sound like it is that person’s first day on the internet

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        14 hours ago

        they clearly don’t. judging from the fact they need to supplement the income by selling ads (and also by what their subscription actually offers, which is… vpn and “ai”)

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        14 hours ago

        the commenter i was replying to clearly does. if you don’t, all you had to do was shut up 🤷‍♂️