When it comes down to ad-based revenue versus subscription-based revenue, I'll choose the subscription (almost) every time. I'd much rather pay (some amount) fo

When it comes down to ad-based revenue versus subscription-based revenue, I'll choose the subscription (almost) every time. I'd much rather pay (some amount) for a high-quality product than not pay for a subpar product (assuming, as I do, that ads detract from an app's experience in most cases). I'd also prefer that service be the one "mining" my data (to provide a better service to me) than being a middleman ferrying my data off to advertisers and third parties. Honestly, if the app/service can really make use of my data, I'd usually prefer handing it all over to them so they can do their job better over having some kind of offline experience for the misguided sake of trying to protect my privacy. Give me the option to give you data and show/tell me what you're going to do with it, and I'll happily give it to you 9 out of 10 times. My ideal price is somewhere between a subscription and a one-off payment for something for most things, with no ads in either and some kind of cloud-based storage/backup/assistance in both. Obviously there's a lot of context left out here like how one-off payments don't work when you're paying server fees each month, etc.