• Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    The paid service will start without ads, and then they’ll put them in just at the beginning and end for a video, then they’ll ad them in like they are now and blame rising operational costs.

    The playbook has been out in the open for a while now.

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      1 year ago

      We have an entire generation now that grew up seeing this happen everywhere. Its so blindingly obvious this is “just the way internet stuff works”

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        1 year ago

        It was also the way that cable TV “worked”. Didn’t stop people from cutting the cord to get away. Didn’t stop the rise of the Ad-Blocker.