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by WilTimSon 1925 days ago
You're in the minority and pretty much exercising your first-world privileges to dictate what you think the service should do. It's intended to work for everyone across the world, no matter how poor, and I'm 100% sure people from India or Brazil would leave it completely if they had to pay to use the app.

Having non-targeted ads and, potentially, premium features that you can pay for is an optimal middle ground for an app of this size.