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>> and the way that service is paid for is by advertisement.

If by advertisement you mean the whole sale consumption and tracking of all your personal behaviors to aggregators that have arbitraged advertising for their profit and pushed everything in a race to the bottom...

Then yes.

Most people don't object to ads, and less to smart ones... we hate pop ups, the tracking, the scams, the bullshit. Advertising on line has done everything in its power to devalue its product as much as possible and operate an ineffective volume business. Its been doing this since the Netflix pop under and the sign up for 10 services to get a free iPod days.

> ad-free experience by paying for YouTube premium

How many paid for services now have ad's to? Sorry but no one is buying into this bullshit any more.




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