OpenAI disables ChatGPT app suggestions that looked like ads

If they think they're anywhere close to being far enough "in the lead" to force ads on paying customers, they're mistaken.

Also, stop with the "wE FeLlL ShOrT", corporate platitudes mean nothing in 2025. We know you don't feel that way, you know you don't feel that way, cut the bs.

I tell everyone that complains about chatgpt being bad to just switch to literally any alternative I think out of big 3 they're dead last right now in terms of actual usefulness. OpenRouter agrees.

They're never going to be far enough in the lead, they had a first mover advantage a couple years ago but the gap is never going to be that large again.

Once a major player just decides "ok we're going ads for free users" the rest of the industry will follow and have an easier time doing so.

I think if they wanted to do this they should have just taken the flack, free users of the product are a drain and they can't cave to them. Eventually free users will "get over it" and if OpenAI opens the ads flood-gate then all the other free-to-use LLMs will be ads based as well and non-paying users won't have an ads-free place to go.