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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
Another fucking dipshit who thinks the world owes him a living. It's real simple, buddy, if you don't like what Tumblr does with its own service, don't use it.
But that's right, you're a talentless broke clown who expects other sites to eat the bill hosting your shit at no cost to you while also providing you free traffic that you can lure to your own sites, hoping to make a buck.
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Dude, chill with the righteous indignation! The OP didn't even really complain about it much, and it's useful to hear about for the rest of us who have Tumblr blogs.
Far as marketing goes, it's just not as simple as you make it out to be anymore. These services are "free" yes, but also a substantial portion of the content shared on them is copyrighted material posted by users without the original owners' permission. Call it piracy if you want (tho that's becoming an outdated term in the current environment). If users just posted "officially released" content many of these services would probably not exist. So in many cases these services are indirectly profiting illicitly off our material in a way to begin with.
Also, you can market your product and still provide "added value". Again, my vintage blog often links back to my main site, but I've gotten nothing but extremely positive feedback from other users & followers, people will go out of their way to comment how much they enjoy the posts. Also as stated repeatedly, Google has started given services like these massive priority over privately owned domains & blogs.
If there was an option to register as a "content producer" for a reasonable monthly fee on Tumblr and be able to post without worrying about getting canned, I'd consider it as probably would others. As it stands, the current new ad system they have is definitely unwelcome by users and *not* considered to be "adding value" by the majority.