Not many people noticed the ads on
news on the post around when they were introduced, but a quite a few have been noticing the new front page ads on the latest
news post.
brad posts about being against ads on the front page, as well. But, as we all know, there are some issues you just can't win.
Whenever there is a problem with access etc you get some people who grumble about LJ just concentrating on adding shiny new gadgets and not making sure that the basic infrastructure works, but in general day-to-day discussions you seldom hear anything either positive or negative. A large part of my flist has either paid or permanent accounts and the few times anyone with a basic account asks about plus you either get people regaling the askee with horror stories about how the ads will mess up their layout (nice layouts are very important for many in fandom) and even outright offers to pay for a paid account. Of course the only policy I have when it comes to adding and deleting people from my flist is that I won't accept plus accounts so my experience is rather slanted when it comes to this.
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I don't like having my fannish stuff in the hands of some Corp who I do not trust to serve my privacy needs or to turn me over to TPTB when they demand it. I stopped posting screen caps here when I found out LJ sends feeds out containing my posts. I found my pictures in placed I didn't want, and my posts on aggregators. I don't want that so I had to friendslock everything since there's no way to stop them. I don't even trust that friendslocking works completely.
Modern fans are bizarrely innocent about this stuff and think the lawyers are happy to see them do music vids and fic and icons...
I hope fandom wakes up soon before anything bad goes on.
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