please, please tell me this is a delayed april fool's joke

[sophiaserpentia]

LJ will now offer accounts which display ads on your journal and friend's page

But, hey! They'll be targeted ads, based on the interests in your interest list. Congratulations, you all belong to a focus group now!

Comments

[amokk]

It's a voluntary thing and Brad's said a few times he had to basically be hit over the head a few times to accept that there are people who want this.


So, people want to have it, people who don't want ads don't have to have them, so what's the problem here exactly?

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Internet ads are like kudzu. I'm concerned that a year from now, it won't seem all that unreasonable to the people who run LJ to make paid users look at ads.

[amokk]

I doubt it, but it's completely possible. But things change, and we have to accept that sometimes things change in ways we don't always like. :)