1,278 karma · joined April 2, 2012
I feel like living in a country advertisers don't care about makes your digital life better. For example the NBA league pass is very cheap in my country, all teams. For an amount I'd be glad to pay per month, I can watch all games for all teams on demand, without blackouts. And during game breaks we either watch the stadium feed, an animated NBA logo, or highlights and countdowns of other games.
It's weird that supposedly clever people cannot see beyond "this number goes down/up now" to "this is not immediately beneficial, but it keeps our company healthier in the long run".
You make that sound like they are helping the developer. The help is going the other way, it seems to me.
Several car companies had plans to stop making ICE cars at some point in the near future. Everyone stopped buying their cars and they have had to backtrack (e.g. Porsche). We have all collectively decided that environmentalism is hot air (tee hee) and we'll just continue with business as usual.