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seriously, it's the one thing keeping the web usable (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They pay the business who owns the ad space, who in turns pays the website or app for their space. You pay for the app or website content by watching the ad.

It's a terrible model, but you are being paid (in content) for watching ads.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Yuck no, I pay for the content not the ads. That implicit arrangement is false advertising then