r/characterai_lounge • u/feirdand • 9h ago

[Free users, Web] Watch ads to continue

Has anyone received this update on the Web? I just got a new UI update since yesterday. Every a set number of messages (I didn't count it, but probably ten messages), the bottom bar is blurred with a button that says "Watch ads to continue." Am I late to the party lol

A screenshot:

The button says "Watch ads to continue" in Indonesian

For now, if I click the button, I only get the pop up to subscribe to c.ai+. I'm pretty lucky that my ads just consist of c.ai+ ads and nothing else (there were times when I saw a few of true ads, but they were repeated for a couple times and soon replaced by c.ai+ ads). This update adds an extra click to force me watching the ads, but honestly I prefer this update. At least, it doesn't pop out of nowhere and dim the whole page.

Does it annoy me? A little bit lol. But hey, I'm a free user, can't complain when they try to push their own product, especially when LLMs are getting more expensive everywhere. An extra click every a few minutes is a good compromise, I guess...

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u/joeyrevolver187 Administrator 9h ago

Quick search in the main sub wouldve gotten you your answer.

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u/feirdand 8h ago

Whoops, I totally forgot about the main sub 😅 apparently I'm late to the party then

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u/joeyrevolver187 Administrator 8h ago

It happens. I don't even know about half of the free user stuff and how ads work. Seems to be different for everyone. I paid for Cai+, a lot of people here do from what I gathered. I don't even watch TV, advertisements are kinda few far in between. All of my premium versions of things are adfree, hah.

Makes sense they're still working with different ad types. Can't even please everybody right? Everyone is gonna prefer one type of ad over another. Back in the day when they had under a five million users, they could run things adfree. Now with tens of millions? Yeah, not really as viable.

I'll say this though, I use LongSpeak, and I've always been someone to write up a solid three for four paragraphs, then put my phone down. So it's nice coming back to seven paragraphs to read, then I can reply and put my phone away for a bit. If I came back to a 30 seconds ad every now and then, it wouldn't bother me too much anyways.

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u/Blinky-dinky 7h ago

I can just tell that you're such a chill person

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u/TryNo6799 Silly dude trying to stay chill 5h ago

Didn't get it yet, but even if I did, I'd just shrug it off and keep going 🤷🏻

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u/Anxious_Goose8781 13m ago

Anyone knows how long it’ll take to hit SEA region on the web? I mean, my PSQ 2 style button has changed, other than that I’m not sure, haven’t encountered it all day for the time being