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You can switch to another free LLM chat app that doesn't have ads. No problem until those inevitably must add ads to survive.
My hope is that we can get to the point I can run good-enough models on local hardware before they are all ad laden.
You can already do this. Get an M5 Max with 129GB model and run a Qwen model. Or with for an M5 Ultra with 512GB of RAM and run Deepseek/Kimi/larger Qwen.