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Just because you are paying for a service doesn't mean that companies won't double dip or triple dip by either showing you ads or selling your data.
by kiba 3y ago
Just because you are paying for a service doesn't mean that companies won't double dip or triple dip by either showing you ads or selling your data.
- jhbadger 3y agoYeah, movie theaters figured that out 30 years or so ago when they realized besides trailers (which okay, are ads of a sort), they could subject viewers who paid for a ticket to 20 minutes of ads for things like M&Ms and Coke before even the trailers begin. It's gotten to the point that you might as well show up 30 minutes after a movie is scheduled to begin as the movie itself won't have started yet.
- smileysteve 3y agoThen there is product placement like in ET or back to the future! Who didn't want to eat Reese's pieces, drink a Pepsi free or tab, or buy a Toyota or pair of Nikes.
- jhbadger 3y agoTrue, but that has a long history. It used to be even more blatant in fact, with characters commenting on how smooth the taste of Lucky Strike cigarettes were in the 1950s.
- not_your_mentat 3y agoI both pay for YouTube Premium (let's call it what it is: a hope that content creators get paid) and also use uBlock Origin religiously. Nothing's stopping people from doing both.