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How ads are chewing through half of your mobile data (www.nextpit.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Rather than paying for that wasted data, there should be a service that lets you pay the sites displaying the ads directly – like an internet tax going to sites you visit. Problem solved. And it would cut ad providers out of the loop.

[–] thesmokingman 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The enshittification of the subscription model here is a gradual increase in ads until you have no choice to purchase on mobile because otherwise your data is tanked. Subscriptions work for now; they might not in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Are you saying there is a risk that they would salami-slice their way back to having ads even on the subscription, as happened with YT premium?