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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands) (i.redd.it)
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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Screens are cheap man. Advertising is highly profitable and effective. You aren't inonnated with a zero-sum game. It's far from saturation. If it's somewhere your eyeballs point there is profit to be made by putting ads there.