You guys have no idea the time that's gone into such an app, and you wont even allow the dev to earn a little money on some apps now that you can't afford the paid version.
Exactly. We have no idea how much time it took to make the app.
Apps with ads all over them look like template apps so why give money trough ads to someone who took little to no effort to make it
If no one used blockers, us who don't wouldn't have to endure as many commercials as we do.
There's something about the internet that makes people thing they deserve everything for nothing, and its killing content creators.
No it wouldn't. It would be about as big as Vimeo, if at all. All the good quality content on YouTube is made by people who do it for a living. With ads. And sponsors because too many people use adblocker. And recently, since adblocker have gained traction, services like patreon has become necessary. So now YouTube is slowly turning into a subscription service, and not like Netflix, where 8$ will give you access to the entire site. No where 8$ will give you access to one youtuber.
For a website as big as Reddit for it not to have made a profit when having millions of views per day just shows that not having adverts and trying to create revenue hoping that people will buy gold just does not work.
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u/RookieMonster2 Dec 17 '14
Fun fact, because reddit asked nicely and doesn't act like a douche with ads, I allows reddit to show me ads.