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

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    3 months ago

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

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      3 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.

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      3 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.

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      3 months ago

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