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We've seen this process before. If you don't pay, you are the product.

• Someone1234 8mo ago
  But people ARE paying and still getting ads in this move. Their Go plan, which is paid, is getting ads.
  • simianwords 8mo ago
    There exists no (or very few) subscription service that has no tier without advertisements. You are panicking for no reason. Netflix? Hulu? Youtube? Spotify? Adobe? Duolingo? X?
    • pigpag 8mo ago
      This is simply not (always) true. Spotify injects ads for Podcasts even for paying users. YouTube has tons of videos with adds built-in by content creators.
      • Someone1234 8mo ago
        Yep, and a lot of the streaming services listed also inject ads for their own shows into the "ad-free" tier's content (before it begins). Plus ads on the home-page.
      • simianwords 8mo ago
        this is an incorrect analogy - the platform is not showing ads but rather the creators themselves.
        • Marsymars 8mo ago
          I dunno, I think it's clearly different if Spotify is using their platform to inject the ads vs the creators creating the content with ads included. Like if Netflix let showrunners inject ads into their shows and provided a technical platform for that, and the Stranger Things creators added ads to every episode... nobody would be like "it's not Netflix showing ads, it's the Stranger Things creators".
    • SirFatty 8mo ago
      Then everything is ok since everyone's doing it!
      • simianwords 8mo ago
        you didn't get my point - no one is doing it and there's a reason why.,
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