Comment on Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth.

• ctkatz@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  anyone with a tenth of a percentage of business sense could tell you a business that produces nothing but eyeballs to advertisers will be a massive failure if said business does anything to piss the owners of said eyeballs off.

  and experts are confused why traded-on-the-markets social media companies are in freefall.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Except this isn’t 100% true.

    • Google continues to add more ads per page, despite people complaining
    • Netflix now has ads even in paid tiers. Their subscribers count grew
    • YouTube continues to push ads even to the point of aggressive blocking ad blockers

    There isn’t a single platform that has reduced the number of ads it serves.

    Businesses have learned that the majority of users will take it.

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      All of those platforms have sources of revenue besides ads.

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• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Capitalism will sell you the rope to hang it.

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