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1. woodru+Pj[view] [source] 2023-12-27 00:55:39
>>qainsi+(OP)
This seems to be the sad reality of many paid services: paying is not a guarantee of freedom from advertisement, only a temporary respite. Being a paying customer is a very juicy datapoint, one that every one of these streaming companies eventually decides to capitalize on.
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2. ants_e+Up[view] [source] 2023-12-27 01:49:19
>>woodru+Pj
You end up paying in three ways: (1) money (subscription fees), (2) data (you're forced to log in and allow tracking), and (3) the decrease in attention/focus caused by advertising.

All three prices can be ratcheted up over time mostly independently of each other. Price increases in (2) and (3) are largely invisible to the user.

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