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On LJ and ads.
Mar. 19th, 2008 10:17 amApparently, the folks who run Livejournal have decided to do away with their "free" tier of service, leaving only "paid" and "ad-supported" levels.
This seems to have caused a kerfuffle amongst some LJ bloggers to the tune of "how dare they take away this totally free thing they've been giving me, and replace with a totally free thing with the same functionality, but some ads so they can make money! Rar!"
I have one paid LJ (this one), and one ad-supported LJ (my old![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
reparo account.) From what I've seen, the ads are fairly benign, and are on par with the sorts of banner ads that can be seen on sites like cnn.com, or the bbc's news site outside of the UK (or on webcomics like Sluggy or SP). They're relatively inoccuous, and easily ignored.
Could someone please tell me what all the fuss is?
(Furthermore, could someone explain to me how holders of "free" accounts boycotting or leaving LJ would any sort of affect on them?)
This seems to have caused a kerfuffle amongst some LJ bloggers to the tune of "how dare they take away this totally free thing they've been giving me, and replace with a totally free thing with the same functionality, but some ads so they can make money! Rar!"
I have one paid LJ (this one), and one ad-supported LJ (my old
reparo account.) From what I've seen, the ads are fairly benign, and are on par with the sorts of banner ads that can be seen on sites like cnn.com, or the bbc's news site outside of the UK (or on webcomics like Sluggy or SP). They're relatively inoccuous, and easily ignored.Could someone please tell me what all the fuss is?
(Furthermore, could someone explain to me how holders of "free" accounts boycotting or leaving LJ would any sort of affect on them?)
