Because the value of accounts that browse extreme numbers of posts per day is near zero to advertisers.
Someone who has seen thousands of ads per day for years on end is basically immune to ads (or has blocked them, or is a bot)
One of the hard things to grok as an engineer or power user is that we are not the target audience for ad-supported services most of the time. How many people in this thread have aggressively blocked ads everywhere and are confused about why ad-supported services aren’t catering to people like themselves?
Someone who has seen thousands of ads per day for years on end is basically immune to ads (or has blocked them, or is a bot)
One of the hard things to grok as an engineer or power user is that we are not the target audience for ad-supported services most of the time. How many people in this thread have aggressively blocked ads everywhere and are confused about why ad-supported services aren’t catering to people like themselves?