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if we don't watch their ads now because of how intrusive and poor quality they are, where's the logic leap to they get money from us if we can't block their ads? We just move on or get better at blocking, they don't actually get money in this scenario... This is the problem with tech decisions these days, the companies are completely out of touch. You can't use consumers as products and then charge them for it, and make no mistake about it you are the product.
Banksy had it right:
A long winded way of saying: Advertising shits in your head
~ Michel Serres
Sounds like a statement I can get behind. I don't know who Banksy is, can you point me in the right direction?
You are about to have a great time.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=banksy
He’s a street artist from the UK, his identity hasn’t been officially confirmed because he works with graffiti a lot.
Every time they make blocking ads harder, more people give up and live with it than those who leave or find a way around it. As much as I wish that wasn't the case, it unfortunately is.
Why serve a user base that won't either pay money to view a video or watch ads that fund it?
Maybe if the subscription cost was just the amount of money they make off the ads...
That tells you the true value of advertising to you. They make more than the take because they are an advertising company who has just built a stupid service to entice people to view the ads and give up their habits. They are undercutting their core business by offering an ad-free sub in the first place, which is why they overcharge for it. They'd rather make some money than none, but they hate that they can't advertise to you.