At Hive Open Days I have met so few people that were against ads on Hive, if the choice is withering away or getting ads the choice is obvious, they would choose ads.

I am actually yet to meet someone, apart from Hive frontend devs, who oppose ads.

It is not as if we are not giving away our data for free with Hive. Anyone can train any AI or run a node and get all the onchain data for free.

We post where we are and what we are doing and about our hobbies and any advertiser outside Hive can cross reference and target us without giving back anything at all to Hive. Why not get rewarded while at it?