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minus-square@Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilink16•8 months agoThe 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.
minus-square@xenoclast@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink7•8 months agoWe have an entire generation now that grew up seeing this happen everywhere. Its so blindingly obvious this is “just the way internet stuff works”
minus-square@Patches@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink1•8 months agoIt 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.
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.
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”
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.