It's totally true for things like spotify, where you can easily stream thousands of songs just in the background every month. Imagine how silly it would be if y

It's totally true for things like spotify, where you can easily stream thousands of songs just in the background every month. Imagine how silly it would be if you had to make sure that spotify is closed when you leave your computer on for some time :) However, consuming written content is different. It's much more involved, conscious action. So I am not sure if it is really much worse for the user.