>>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.
>>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.
>>ants_e+Up
The problem is that in terms of revenue (2) and (3) are tiny compared to (1) because by tipping your hand that you value your time above a pittance, you reveal yourself to be much less cost sensitive, so they charge you a massive premium.
>>jdewer+uq
This was what I thought too, but ‘ksherlock has provided some links above that suggest the opposite: paid subscribers are less profitable than their ad-viewing counterparts.