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It sounds like you are describing an internet that could run without ads and by paying instead. Interesting.

>>hahn-k+(OP)
Right? Instead we will get surveillance, walled gardens, locked out devices, centralized control, pay for all this, and still have ads.

>>hahn-k+(OP)
> describing an internet that could run without ads and by paying instead

How are you drawing this conclusion? What about paying Apple for verification would imply that any of that money would go to the websites you're visiting, or would make it any easier for those websites to collect payments from you?

>>hahn-k+(OP)
internet with ads, that you have to pay for, seems to be the endgame

>>hahn-k+(OP)
This will likely go in the direction of cable. Starting out paying and not having ads to ending up having the worst of both worlds.