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Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. (www.seroundtable.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

anyone with a tenth of a percentage of business sense could tell you a business that produces nothing but eyeballs to advertisers will be a massive failure if said business does anything to piss the owners of said eyeballs off.

and experts are confused why traded-on-the-markets social media companies are in freefall.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Except this isn't 100% true.

  • Google continues to add more ads per page, despite people complaining
  • Netflix now has ads even in paid tiers. Their subscribers count grew
  • YouTube continues to push ads even to the point of aggressive blocking ad blockers

There isn't a single platform that has reduced the number of ads it serves.

Businesses have learned that the majority of users will take it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

All of those platforms have sources of revenue besides ads.