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ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads
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People pay money for this shit?
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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I don't, my employer does though. Assisting with certain coding tasks is pretty much the only thing it's good about it.
This isn't for copilot though
ChatGPT No thank you.
Enshittification speed run 100%
These guys are desperate for revenue. It’s a last ditch effort cash grab so they don’t go bankrupt.
They’ve already committed to spend over a trillion dollars on infrastructure. They’re going down long before that ever happens.
How do you know the authorities won't just keep printing money for them?
The scale of their commitments is just… too big.
Too big for what? Haven't been any requirements to print money for like 55 years
Unless they make trump the chairman of the board and replace the rest with his chosen mouthpieces, he’d rather pocket the trillion in a Qatar slush fund.
If it was like 25b maybe they would do it, but 1400b is better spent erecting gold monuments in every city with a 3 year lease that has terms to drop the monuments off in maralago
I wonder if you can trick the Ai into serving you an ad and then convincing it to trash the company, and then meme on it, ruining the revenue source.
Never seen ads on netflix, dont pay for it
Yup even people who pay get adverts. Not used it in years and over Christmas a relative put something on. It has adverts at the start and during the show. I was immediately irate. Wanted to throw a shoe at the TV
I don’t have ads with them. Their poor tier is the ad tier.
I’m close to dumping them though. Price increases are out of hand. Content feels razor thin compared to how it used to be.
It should cost less per person as they grow userbase but instead it costs more. They pocket the economy of scale while we get fucked.
Get a mibox. Put stremio on it and view content from torrentio. You be jolly.
Just become a pirat .
Much jollier option
Hold on. Paying for ads is now normalized?
We are so fucking stupid.
It was normalized with cable television.
You guys have ads ? , never seen one in de last 10 years on internet . Use ablocker
Yes since netflix popularized it
I believe Hulu was the original offender.
I think it was cable TV.
Are we forgetting cable television?
I mean, Hulu was basically designed and owned by the cable companies. Not sure why that seems surprising for people.
Movie theatres
No, but that was a (slightly) different kind of fuckery.
Like basically everything, that was enshittification as well, Cable TV used to not have ads. That was a big part of the marketing compared to broadcast TV.
Ok whatever. I'm just waiting for the 🎈📌
Good news, everyone! We discovered a new way to make up plausible sounding bullshit...now all that is left to discover is how to make it stop showing you ads.