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Personally, I don't mind when ads are reasonable for a website or service I'm getting for free. I think people should get paid for the service they are providing. The problem is it always eventually gets out of control and at that point, yeah I'm going to block your ads.
I was on a website earlier today and 80% of the screen was ads. Sorry, you're getting added to my block list.
Same.
I've paid $10 for spotify every month for years and it's always been a great service and the algorithm does a good job of finding me new music that I like.
But most of this stuff can be pirated or bought piecemeal without bothering with a subscription.
And that's what we'll do when it gets out of hand, as we all know it will.
Louis Rossmann: "when the pirate experience is better than the paid experience, you have a problem."