[eudamoniac]

All you are saying here is that the sites with ads are so much better than the actually-free sites that people still use them despite having ads. Which is maybe not a signal that ads need to be banned.

[bubblewand]

I’m saying that actually-free services and sites have no budget for promotion and become very hard to discover when drowned out by tons of ad-supported options, which drives down use, which discourages participation in improving them which suppresses how good they tend to be.

[Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe]

In a world with add it's not the best site that wins but the site that games mass psychology the best.