Artist, writer, comic, hacker, loud voice, and nerd of all trades from New York City.

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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • I had a premium account on there for many years, often through being awarded “gold” on posts and the rest of the time through just paying for premium because it was worth it to me to remove the ads (without having to use my ad-blocker) and have the other usability tweaks. I cancelled the recurring payment at the start of this API debacle, because I don’t need to be supporting a company which does that.

    I’m terribly curious how the money which would be brought in by a user maintaining a premium subscription measures up against the money they’d be making forcing the crappy malware official client on that user and showing them ads.