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[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I disagree so much with the "But it's free argument". Consider the millions YouTube videos with ads to free to play games. Would you consider them to be ad-free videos? And that's ignoring that Copilot isn't even free (either pay with data or with a subscription model)