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Don't worry, you'll pay for the service and get ads. It's the inevitable end-state of these kinds of services.


Amazon prime video showed us that.

First no ads. Then ad free if you pay extra. Then “ad free” except half the shows have a “this show requires ads” bs and still have ads. Scummy flea ridden advertisers at their core.


And Netflix follows suit. You think you can escape the ads? Think again.


Yes we can. Pirate the stuff, they try to block it? Use a seedbox.

Same goes for AI. This will accelerate options for private hosted AI. Which I guess will happen eventually anyway once cheap hardware gets to a state where you can run X model size at home for cheap.

As always its the people in the know that have the upper hand. The mass user base does not have this knowledge unfortunately. They might just stop using the service if no competitor steps up. We are seeing it with streaming cancellations.


Most people don’t do this and won’t start


Amazon prime video, when you pay for the subscription, half of the content in the content lists are paid. That’s right, you pay for a subscription that suggests PpV content.




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