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    2 days ago

    It was generally believed about a year ago that ads would only show up in free products, like Google search, or whatever.

    Now we see them in cars, Apple software and all sorts of very expensive products.

    Because its never enough ads.

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      20 hours ago

      It was generally believed about a year ago that ads would only show up in free products

      It definitely was not lol. Ads have been in paid products for literal decades by this point.

      You’re not going to be seeing an ad for plane tickets on the map - if you search for “burgers” you might get an ad for Burger King show up as a sponsored result at the top. That’s it, it’s just ads for companies that are relevant to what you searched for in the app.

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        14 hours ago

        Maybe in some products but not a lot. We didnt have ads in Netflix, we didnt have ads in cars, we didnt have ads in tv software and so on. You probably know this.

        I dont see the point of pretending its not getting worse. A lot worse.

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          9 hours ago

          Cable tv has literally had ads for decades. Magazines have had ads for as long as they existed.

          What world have you been living in?

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            9 hours ago

            Sure those things had ads, but you are seemingly ignoring the new places that have ads now.

            But I dont care really if you see it or not. :)

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              3 hours ago

              That’s a different story. You said that up until a year ago paid products didn’t have ads. That’s demonstrably false, we have decades of evidence to prove so.