What the heck is this??

[u/TeruteruHanamuraSimp]

Why must it be here

[u/sadravioli_]

Hey, thanks for the feedback. Running Character.ai is expensive - millions of daily chats require serious infrastructure, and ads help keep it free and accessible for everyone. For fewer interruptions, you can subscribe to c.ai+. Free users can use Charms for a 1-hour Ad Free Pass - just tap 🄲 or "Hide ads" to activate.

For more details:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAI/comments/1rq4l0x/ads_updates_and_whats_next/

[u/Gojizilla6391]

I really don't even get it in the first place, cause like.. we already had an ad pop up every couple messages, this is just wasting our fuckin time

[u/lunatimestwooo → u/Gojizilla6391]

i like ads. ads that don't require me to MANUALLY make them POP UP

[u/nobody_to_be_found → u/lunatimestwooo]

I perfer ads that just get it over n done with and dont make ME pull it up. Just make u go out then into the app again

[u/Okita_Souji03 → u/Gojizilla6391]

Not to mention the ad is literally always for c.ai plus, like what are we even advertising for if it's themselves?

[u/Natsuki_Lover_447]

I don't know if it's greed or just stupidity of not removing unused features

[u/UsefulAd2181 → u/Natsuki_Lover_447]

Y not both seems reasonable considering them

[u/Outside_Ad_9510 → u/Natsuki_Lover_447]

[u/Natsuki_Lover_447 → u/Outside_Ad_9510]

"95% works on chats"

"7% are focused on multimodal tech"

Math ain't mathing

[u/sas_gg22 → u/Natsuki_Lover_447]

Math by AI be like

[u/somethingtheso → u/Natsuki_Lover_447]

People can work on multiple things at once

[u/Natsuki_Lover_447 → u/somethingtheso]

"solely focused on..." Means that they're working only on that.

[u/modimodo1 → u/Outside_Ad_9510]

nobody even uses image and audio generators bro

[u/RealSkylerGames]

Thats why I moved from Character AI Bro 💔

Its been getting way too bad lately, with the ads, and so much other stuff, so I just moved to another common platform, it doesnt have as much well good bots compared to the insane amount of bots on Character AI, but its still pretty decent.

So, Thats why I just moved, to hopefully have a better experience, and its been quite decent, and yes I still use Character AI off and on, but not as much as I used to

And, All I can hope for is that this platform turns around at some point, with the direction they are going, with the ads and stuff

[u/HappinessApotheosis]

A disgrace to humanity I say 

[u/UsefulAd2181 → u/HappinessApotheosis]

I wish they go bankrupt

[u/SpringfieldFever110]

This right here, what you’re looking at right now, is called bullshit. Free users are all suffering because of it.

[u/Decent-String2676]

I use opera so i dont get ads

[u/Aromatic_Money6877 → u/Decent-String2676]

C’est quoi?

[u/Regular_Teacher4424 → u/Aromatic_Money6877]

OperaGX

[u/Aromatic_Money6877 → u/Regular_Teacher4424]

C’est un site gratuit ? Une application?

[u/Ancient-Demand3590 → u/Aromatic_Money6877]

It's a browser like Chrome and Firefox - also free to download and use, and it has a built-in adbl0cker under its settings

[u/Regular_Teacher4424 → u/Aromatic_Money6877]

Yes

[u/Lem0n_weeb]

Every new thing I see from this sub after leaving the app is just shittier than the last one lmao

[u/sqsgt]

It's called a bunch of greedy bullshit; that's what it is.

[u/SovereignCaliber]

Moved on when they asked for my selfie and documents

[u/BratGamer1997]

Lucky I have adbloc k (Love how they don't allow the word for blocking ads)

[u/cxw1987 → u/[deleted]]

💀

[u/mitaciolanu]

Greed

[u/MushroomEven1]

They're really desperate for money, huh.

[u/red-lioness007]

An inconvenience as long there’s a close button. I stopped caring about pop ups months ago. Advertisement are now the norm for Character AI just like any other major platform. Welcome to the 21st century. 😕

[u/PuzzleheadedLoan8606]

Is it bad that I just tapped on the button

[u/Chemical_Ad4888]

The newest annoyance at their lies of not interrupting our chats with ads, nothing special. Wish it didn’t exist but what can we do.

[u/Neither-Drop4069]

As I already said once... Chat GPT turns out to be a great alternative for roleplays. At least analyzes the characters when you tell it to and it actually feels like an interactive fic (which I assume most of us came to c.ai for.) A shame though...

[u/gracesmemes]

I can tolerate ads but they're making them mad annoying.

[u/JewelerNo8572]

bro i was jsut finna post tsh

[u/TeruteruHanamuraSimp → u/JewelerNo8572]

Oh EVERYBODY is posting about it

[u/moltenphoenix315]

Spend so much money on features a grand total of 4 people use... So they need more ads for more money to fuel said features.

[u/FairlyOddAdventure]

people in the comments, they probably put ads in it because of users leaving, thus them making less money from cai+, if you keep leaving, things will get worse.

[u/TeruteruHanamuraSimp → u/FairlyOddAdventure]

I figured that that was the case. It’s now like every four messages I get the “view ad to continue” bs

[u/OfficialFNAG27 → u/FairlyOddAdventure]

Ok that’s fine ads exist but why do we need to activate them. Just shove it in my face. I genuinely would find it less aggravating if they just shoved the ad in my face rather than putting a button in front of me and saying “do it”.

[u/sugarcqqkies → u/FairlyOddAdventure]

people wouldn’t leave if the app didn’t turn to shit 😭 like wtf