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>>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
The sad reality is that consumers are ever more spineless. This particular kind of rip-off started years ago when cable companies got away with charging for ad-riddled channels that used to be part of "basic cable."

Amazon will probably get away with this, just as Apple got away with removing the headphone jack from its best-selling music player. Watch apologists fall all over themselves to excuse it, and attack those of us who decry rip-offs like it.

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down"

Then WHY WAS THE REPLY BUTTON ENABLED? There is no excuse for this rudeness. Why are we expected to put up with it, year after year after year? Deliberately stealing from users is NOT OK, EVER. Why does HN do it?