Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by scarface74 1608 days ago
Alternate sort of off topic take: if you have a service that is valuable, charge people money for it instead of depending on ad revenue.

I try my best to stay away from ad supported business models, if there is an app in the App Store for instance that has an in app purchase to turn off ads, I have no problem paying for it if it something I’m going to use.

2 comments

Piracy is a thing and in poorer countries people don't give a sh*t that they're suffocating you, so I'd rather support the ad industry than get suffocated by the people who is supposed to support me in the first place.
Sounds like OP is in Russia. I'm not sure people are as willing to pay for services there.