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Don't worry, you'll pay for the service and get ads. It's the inevitable end-state of these kinds of services.
by ryandrake 11mo ago
Don't worry, you'll pay for the service and get ads. It's the inevitable end-state of these kinds of services.
- rubidium 11mo agoAmazon prime video showed us that. First no ads. Then ad free if you pay extra. Then “ad free” except half the shows have a “this show requires ads” bs and still have ads. Scummy flea ridden advertisers at their core.
- eastbound 11mo agoAmazon prime video, when you pay for the subscription, half of the content in the content lists are paid. That’s right, you pay for a subscription that suggests PpV content.
- 9dev 11mo agoAnd Netflix follows suit. You think you can escape the ads? Think again.
- nebula8804 11mo agoYes we can. Pirate the stuff, they try to block it? Use a seedbox. Same goes for AI. This will accelerate options for private hosted AI. Which I guess will happen eventually anyway once cheap hardware gets to a state where you can run X model size at home for cheap. As always its the people in the know that have the upper hand. The mass user base does not have this knowledge unfortunately. They might just stop using the service if no competitor steps up. We are seeing it with streaming cancellations.
- kzzzznot 11mo agoMost people don’t do this and won’t start