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I would much prefer this piece of shit die in obscurity, thanks

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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

If you're not capable of dictating what appears in your own company's product, maybe that's something to rethink?

[-] cjoll4@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Should Ruben vet the entire Lemmyverse while he's at it so he can "dictate what appears in his product?"

As a solo developer with limited resources, one has four choices:

• Choose an existing ad network and do the best you can within its content preferences,

• Put a paywall on your app's features and hope enough people will actually buy it,

• Work for free, sacrificing your own livelihood, or

• Don't develop the app.

Clearly they all involve a compromise of one form or another, and I trust that Ruben put a lot of thought into the decision.

[-] kitnaht@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

It's not a choice you get. There's only a handful of ad networks out there, and you get to choose one. If you don't do that, the only other option is to make people pay for your stuff - which most won't do because they're so accustomed to ads.

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

You can't force the ad networks to rethink. As a dev, your choice would be to completely paywall the app.

[-] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

And do what? Reinvent the universe?

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