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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The system seems to be;

Add adverts
Make them more intrusive
Add more adverts
Make them even more intrusive
Everybody is fed up with adverts because there are now more adverts than content, so introduce paid version which costs more than the company would earn on ad impressions even for a heavy user, to remove ads
Next step might be to add some ads to paid version?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't this exactly what Netflix is trying to do with their paid subscribers?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Netflix didn't start with ads, and the ads don't affect pre-existing subscription tiers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

For what it's worth, Facebook didn't have ads way back in the day

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