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> those users want to keep their money.

Well, no. Those users want a service. Nobody coerces anyone into giving App.Net money, so those paying users actually don't want to keep this amount of money, in exchange for the service.

> A free-based service, supported by advertisers, has tons of incentive to keep its users just as happy as a fee-based service.

But for that it has to show ads, and the business is then to show ads in the most efficient way possible, which has a number of consequences we can readily witness today.



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