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Meta to introduce Ads on Threads in 2025 in move surprising no one. (www.reuters.com)
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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 40 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I’m more surprised to discover now that it launched without ads

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 0 points 2 hours ago

The goal was to attract Twitter refugees. No ads helps sell the "greener pastures" the users were looking for.

Once those users are comfortable, Threads can do whatever it wants. They know how much it took to get Twitter users to leave Twitter.

People acting like Meta launched Threads out of the kindness of Zuck's heart are dumb as fuck. Threads has the same goal as Facebook: to make money selling your eyeballs to advertisers and your metadata to data brokers.