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Ads should be illegal TBH.
Who needs that in their life? If your product can't stand on its own merit and you need to bathe swaths of the general public with nonsense to sell anything then maybe your product deserves to fail?
I'd rather a service be funded by ads, because if not, they'll have to find some other way to make money, which could include:
Yeah, it's basically psychological assault, making you feel inadequate, taking up precious mental bandwidth, and feeding addictions.