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Kevin Okemwa

ChatGPT ads for $200/month Pro users might be OpenAI's biggest fumble yet — but an overall necessity for its financial woes

A person uses a smartphone showing the Apple App Store top charts with ChatGPT ranked as the number one free app, followed by other popular applications including Grok, on August 12, 2025.

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Aside from Windows 11's stringent hardware requirements and flawed design elements, Microsoft's continued integration of ads into the operating system is among the main reasons why users are reluctant to upgrade, even after Windows 10's death. Perhaps more interestingly, we're seeing Linux gain popularity, presumably at least in part to its lack of ads and telemetry tracking.

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