News Nvidia forces GeForce Now gamers on free tier to watch ads while waiting to play

[Admin]

To offload the operational cost and perhaps to gain enough revenue to reduce load times, Nvidia now displays advertisements when its free users queue up for game sessions.

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[bigdragon]

Advertising is entirely way too pervasive. It's getting harder to avoid.

However, advertising used to support a free tier of service is fine. I'm surprised Nvidia wasn't already doing this.

 

[vijosef]

So you pay a fortune for a gpu, still get the lag and low performance of a cheap gpu over internet, and over it, still have to watch ads, and give away your privacy?

But you cannot play in a notebook using the GPU of a desktop PC over your own LAN.

 

[CmdrShepard]

However, advertising used to support a free tier of service is fine.

That is how YouTube also started, now they are showing ads to paying customers too.

This is "foot in the door" tactic, nothing else.

We should just put all advertisers in a giant rocket and fire them into the Sun.