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[โ€“] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they adopt ads, it'll not be long before the articles themselves are influenced by who their advertisers are. Can't offend Advertiser A, so let's just delete that line in the article about them.

I think it's important that it remains ad free.

That brings me to the issue I was referring to though. It's already influenced. The advertising catch-22 isn't the only way to fall into this trap.