Both are bad. They hide the real cost from the user. The manual thing would never work because the rates I pay as a user are astronomically higher than the ra

Both are bad. They hide the real cost from the user. The manual thing would never work because the rates I pay as a user are astronomically higher than the rates that would get paid for sponsored data. That’s half the reason the huge companies like it. It costs very little to sponsor data where I’d normally pay inflated rates, so it’s “good value” for me. The problem with that is you need to be a huge business to have a chance of negotiating those deals, so it disadvantages anyone who wants to compete as a startup. Both are bad and should be illegal imo. Let users pay for their data. There’s no reason to obfuscate the costs.