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I don't know where this comes from. Ads are a currency. You choose to allow ads to replace or supplement your payment, or you can choose to pay to forego them, on most all of these services. That's not an option we ever had with cable (or any type of social media, for that matter).
Running these services costs money and you pay money to fund them. These industries have operating at a loss for many years and they are just getting around to being profitable, and they do that by increasing costs.
If you don't want to pay for the service, just be upfront and say so.
Cable WAS the solution to adds in the beginning, that's how it was marketed in the first place. The cycle is not new.
Yes I understand that