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Ads will expand to fill all online spaces. Ads will inevitably come to both, it's just a matter of when they respectively need or decide to capture that profit and when they feel their users are sufficiently dependent so as not to be able to leave.

>>add-su+(OP)
No ads on Wikipedia tho, not even after 25 years.

>>AndyKe+Z
Do you not think those intrusive banners and popups implying that Wikipedia is about to imminently go broke unless you give them money, are ads?

>>AndyKe+Z
The first fundraising banner on wikipedia was in 2003. That is unquestionably an advertisement, and not even an ethical one given the misleading nature of their campaigns these days.

>>cwillu+t2
I’m going to say this is a different ballpark. They are fundraising for themselves.. on their own website..

That’s quite different from shoving ads in your face where it doesn’t belong. Like an ad for Copilot on a YouTube video.

IMO it’s distinct.

>>cwillu+t2
never thought I’d see fundraising compared to ads but here we are… :)

>>Lerc+U1
I think you're letting pedantry hinder you from seeing a useful pattern.