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I know a lot of us use ad-blockers and the like so we don't see ads often anymore. But we can get some insight as to how much certain "services" make by showing ads to the average customer when they have paid ad-free subscriptions available. YouTube, for example. Maybe streaming services.

I'm curious how much most things would cost in this case, especially since so many "services" tend to have maintenance and upkeep costs.

How much would Facebook cost to use if it were ad-free? Snapchat? Windows? (Which is extra gross for having all of an up-front cost, ads embedded, AI included, and pushes for paid subscriptions of its own complementary products...)

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago

Remember that infinite-greed is part of the equation, though..

IF revenue MUST increase, no matter what the cost-to-the-world, THEN .. the example of covid supermarket-profits-skyrocketing, while people couldn't afford food, comes to mind..

That is part of the problem with concentration-of-wealth-archy paradigm & moneyarchy paradigm: they've both got infinities in their goals, that is infinite-concentration-of-wealth, & that breaks civilization's viability.

The 2 equation-classes are incompatible.

Public-benefit-companies are where we ought be, but .. there isn't even that category of incorporation in Canada, ttbomk..

We, globally, have NOT been solving the right problems..

Internet-itself, & social-discussion-forum ought be considered required-civil-infrastructure, removing it from narcissistic-depravity's control, .. but nobody's got the spine to understand that countries are automatically highjacked, otherwise, by the platforms that the country's social-nervous-system is.

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