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I think this is a bit too rose tinted glasses. Being a paying customer doesn't necessarily mean you won't get ads, look at Netflix for a start. Their cheapest p
by Etheryte 1y ago
I think this is a bit too rose tinted glasses. Being a paying customer doesn't necessarily mean you won't get ads, look at Netflix for a start. Their cheapest paid tier still gets ads. The subscription model will be an addition to the ad revenue, not a replacement.
- ljm 1y agoIt should mean that though. Ads are well and truly the cancer on the service industry. It’s an outright abuse to force ads and then make you pay for the bandwidth of those ads on your own plan to render them.
- pc86 1y agoAnyone can say A should mean B, that doesn't mean it's obviously true. Very few services still commercially viable today actually force ads - meaning there is no paid tier available that removes them entirely. I don't particularly like ads but this idea that any advertisement at any point for any good or service is by definition a cancer is a fringe idea, and a pretty silly one at that.
- myko 1y agoGoogle used to let you pay a flat rate to avoid (most) of their ads. It was nice. This program was, of course, canceled.
- MichaelZuo 1y agoHow does this relate to the parent? I don’t there was a claim that nobody would ever offer a partially subscription partially ad funded service.