Thread

1. matheusmoreira · 1789992443 · focus · HN ↗

   It literally never fails.

   If you pay to avoid ads, you are merely letting them know that you have disposable income to spend on this sort of stuff. You're doing their job for them by segmenting yourself into the upper echelons of the market.

   At some point, some shareholder value maximizing CEO is going to show up and notice how much money he's leaving on the table by not advertising to all of those people full of disposable income.

   1. carlosjobim · 1789996799 · focus · HN ↗

      You can cancel a subscription. That's how subscriptions work. That means that any future changes is not a concern for current offerings.

      And I can't understand why hackers never acknowledge this.

      I can put gas in the tank of my car. In the future, they might lower the quality of the gas - or even make it more expensive! That doesn't change anything about the gas that I will currently put in my car.

      > you have disposable income to spend on this sort of stuff

      Advertisers already know that a hundred percent of the population have $20 in disposable monthly income, because they can pay with credit. So they don't learn anything new.

      1. wat10000 · 1790008063 · focus · HN ↗

         The gas analogy is a good one, because those fuckheads also shove advertising in your face when you're already giving them money for a product.

         The issue isn't your ability to cancel individual services. The issue is the increasing difficulty of living life as part of society without constantly having advertising shoved down our throats.

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.