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They advertise aggressively because running a VPN is ridiculously profitable. I do agree with your apprehensive feeling, but at the same time their advertisements do make sense.
No, the US supports Israel because it’s in the interest of their own capital class, which is also why the Brits supported the creation of Israel in the first place.
The idea that the US supports Israel because of Israeli leverage also sounds quite a bit like antisemitic conspiracy theories, and I’m surprised people throw it around willy-nilly.
Honestly very disappointed in the comments here. There’s a valid point to what he’s saying, and the “have you met people?” line of thinking just talks right past that.
Working together doesn’t require conformity. Perhaps there is something to your point, but you’re not arguing it convincingly.
Perhaps if their ad services (googleadservices.com, doubleclick) have something to do with it, but I frankly doubt it.
You have an actual loss in that scenario, but in the case of digital piracy most people wouldn’t have bought it anyway. Hence, no lost sales.
Yeah nah, I’m not saying it as an excuse for men. My point is that criticising a system where most men participate in is not the same as saying all men are inherently shit - which guys like Boogie are pretending.
Criticising the consequences of a patriarchal white supremacist sexist society isn’t the same as condemning white men as a whole.
They mainly make sure spousal abuse statistics stay high
Tbf, meaning can be conveyed purely with subtext. To be even more fair, absolutely no mainstream piece of media lectures the viewer/watcher/listener on why being a white man is bad.
Im a way, yeah. They clearly they made a shitty app to extract as much value from their users as possible. But my point was that Reddit has significantly higher costs than third party app developers (because they host the content), so the business model that works for third party app developers doesn’t work for them.
Looking at a third party app - made by someone who doesn’t have to bear the costs of running the site and can therefore make decent money on an ad-free experience - and a first party one which does have to recoup those expenses doesn’t really work. The financial models are just fundamentally different.
I don’t say that to defend Reddit. They’re clearly a shitty company headed by shitty people, and I’m sure they could’ve found different ways to make money. But yeah, their financial incentives for making an app are fundamentally different than those of other devs.