That may be a good point. But I don't think it's an answer to my question.

My question was, Why do people get so passionate about being screwed? Say consumers really are receiving a $300 discount in exchange for being forced to watch say 30 hours of ads. Is that really such a fantastic opportunity that I'm going to go cheer for it publicly, or claim it's consumers' fault, or it should be mandatory, or we must just accept it because (whatever)?

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I think most people don't see the basic trade of "you charge me less but get my data & my attention" to be a bad deal, particularly when the upside is a large TV which was a _huge_ status symbol (for better or worse) not even 15 years ago.

	▲	nyeah 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		On the other hand Texas seems to have a problem with it. But say you're right. Does "not a bad deal" make people enthusiastic about it? Why go out there and evangelize about a half-assed rewards card that comes with privacy leaks? That's what I'm asking.