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Several companies have done this and the users still scream about it, sometimes more because now they can't block the ads.

The other hard thing for a company is internally, you see normal ad revenue going down and you have some users you can deliver to via some methods. You have to crank that method up to account for it.

Ads is also interesting with the "how much money is enough money" argument. When do you stop monetizing.




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