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IIRC many OTT streaming players found that they can make more money from Ads than they can from subscription alone.

So paying for a service alone doesn't ensure that you are not going to see Ads.

Once they have exhausted their potential market of paying users, almost every service will eventually resort to Ads.

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you can at least pay them to get the ads removed from youtube
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Not really. I’ve had YT premium for years and it removes the obtrusive ones, but I see ads in some form every time I use it.
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Probably means the perpetual “…speaking of security, let me tell you about our sponsor nordvpn…” that’s in every video on YouTube.
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What? No?
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That can be done for free by more tightly managing your hardware platform.
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Forget about that, the founders literally said word for word that advertising ruins search quality in their seminal paper. They became the exact thing they fore-warned about their competitors at the time.

Down-right joke really. The people who idolise them are incredibly delusional.

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