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YouTube and Spotify went that subscription route and it works well. There are no ads.

• ponker 6y ago
  And Spotify is worth $35 billion to Facebook's $660 billion.
• CuriousSkeptic 6y ago
  Spotify is reliant on copyright exclusions to keep competing free services at bay. So aren’t really providing any value. YouTube is still reliant on ads, and ad-funded content creators, and will continue serving you manipulative content wether you pay or not. So can’t really count that as a success either. The thing is when you remove the ugly side of those business what remains can bee done better for free using p2p networks or federation over open protocols.
  • solveit 6y ago
    > The thing is when you remove the ugly side of those business what remains can be done better for free using p2p networks or federation over open protocols. Then why hasn't it happened?
    • TeMPOraL 6y ago
      Because the ugly side of those businesses remains.
• adrianN 6y ago
  If you don't count "influencers" as ads.