Oddbean new post about login | logout What is the point even anymore? If it's not ad free why pay? (I guess they will have ad free if you pay more??) Well I waste too much time watching stuff anyways. I got rid of youTube for this and others will follow. Not paying OR watching unless I can avoid ads. Ads are a huge and harmful force on my quality of life. I will go to great ends to avoid them. I also use blockers, naturally, but blockers aren't perfect. (YouTube still has "mid roll" ads even with the best.) https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/111/164/675/843/180/143/original/02bc89373316ba4a.png
@134318c2 Curious. Oh well. I will be not pressing "play" on anything which makes it clear adverts are shown and will be immediately stopping and aborting anything which shows me one without warning. Might even cancel the payment if they do that last one.
@134318c2 The eventual goal of this is to kill ad-free viewing, at any price. Once the ad-supported plans "take off", they will remove the ad free ones from being "too expensive", "creating too many choices for consumers", and "not enough customers using it" (even though nobody could verify that, pro or post WGA agreement.) I feel this is precisely why regulation is necessary: the nonsense that "businesses making the same anti-consumer changes over a period of time isn't collision" needs to stop when every free market decision results in large "-opoly" control in every case. (Like the mobile telecom industry: three choices are meaningless when all three essentially hold the same practices.)
@134318c2 Amazon: Well, if you won't pay for the ad-laden version then I guess you just won't see it. Me: Works for me.
@134318c2 There has never been an ad free entertainment service that didn't end up serving ads. This is the system.
