I think you've misunderstood both my comment and the one I was responding to. Neither of us mentioned ads? I was pointing out that even the parent comment's ve

I think you've misunderstood both my comment and the one I was responding to. Neither of us mentioned ads? I was pointing out that even the parent comment's very example of a slow slide towards universal subscriptions that add no value didn't hold. It was framed as "I have inside knowledge of this nascent product category and its capture by useless subscriptions", while in reality this is already a market category that exists without any such issues. This bizarre wild-eyed fearmongering about insane, lose-lose, somehow-inescapable business models is HN's version of QAnon.