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Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Old fashioned ads are much less lucrative than highly personalized ads. It's why so many sites require you to create an account to access their content. The end goal of the platform is to extract heaps of advertising data from you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Then they end up getting nothing and making things worse. This is why we can't have nice things :|