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Listen I am all for these big tech companies losing the users but I don't think this was the reason …

Listen I am all for these big tech companies losing the users but I don't think this was the reason why they wrote this comment or my understanding of it My understanding of the parent comment and the comment above the parent comment was that the grand comment was frustrated on why things can't be subscription based internet instead of a sneaky ad tech which invades our privacy. The comment responding to it basically said that it isn't profitable. Users just don't sign up and growth / stock profit matters to the company and so that is the reason why the world is the way it is right now with so privacy invasive ad spyware tech Now, you want to pass laws to force the bloated companies to lose users, so deep down you are saying that losing users is unprofitable for them and that a subscription based model just wouldn't work for the internet which the grand parent comment wanted / preferred and many people do. …

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> putting even the slightest barrier between the user and the content drives away vast numbers of people Dear god, yes, please, good. Pass laws that force the bloated companies to lose users. Yes. World = better.

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Oh yes I agree that they don't want to My feeling is that this arrangement is massively negative for people and since we ostensibly live in a democracy we should fix it and they can go fuck themselves.

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I don't think it's that companies want the ad model, it's that they know they cannot compete with it if they have a subscription model. Nebula, the "answer" to the shittyness of youtube that creators have been falling over themselves to promote for the last 5 years, still has a conversion rate under 1%. People hate ads, but they really really hate subscriptions.

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