The ads in Google also started like this. (However, to my knowledge, there is no way I can pay Google to get the ads in my search removed)

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wtfHN26 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

IIRC many OTT streaming players found that they can make more money from Ads than they can from subscription alone.

So paying for a service alone doesn't ensure that you are not going to see Ads.

Once they have exhausted their potential market of paying users, almost every service will eventually resort to Ads.

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changoplatanero 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

you can at least pay them to get the ads removed from youtube

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Jimmc414 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not really. I’ve had YT premium for years and it removes the obtrusive ones, but I see ads in some form every time I use it.

	▲	chasd00 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Probably means the perpetual “…speaking of security, let me tell you about our sponsor nordvpn…” that’s in every video on YouTube.
	▲	lnenad 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What? No?

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tomrod 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That can be done for free by more tightly managing your hardware platform.

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sdf2erf 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Forget about that, the founders literally said word for word that advertising ruins search quality in their seminal paper. They became the exact thing they fore-warned about their competitors at the time.

Down-right joke really. The people who idolise them are incredibly delusional.