> Regarding ads, 51.98% will deal with ads to enjoy a lower price point, 18.81% will pay to remove ads, and 19.40% report deleting apps with ads. Maybe an unpo

> Regarding ads, 51.98% will deal with ads to enjoy a lower price point, 18.81% will pay to remove ads, and 19.40% report deleting apps with ads. Maybe an unpopular take, but I believe ads are more detrimental to one's mind than the extra $5 to get an ad-free plan. You end up paying well more than the $5 in rumination and buying useless stuff. If ads become more forced or have no option to remove in the future for any provider, I'm instantly out and will spend more money on books. Jerry Mander does an excellent job in his book "Four arguments for the elimination of television" about ads: > If you accept the existence of advertising, you accept a system designed to persuade and to dominate minds by interfering in people's thinking patterns. You also accept that the system will be used by the sorts of people who like to influence people and are good at it. No person who did not wish to dominate others would choose to use advertising, or choosing it, succeed in it. So the basic nature of advertising and all technologies created to serve it will be consistent with this purpose, will encourage this behaviour in society, and will tend to push social evolution in this direction.