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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. bunderbunder · 1789997239 · focus · HN ↗

      This is part of why last year I mostly switched to just borrowing DVDs from my public library. Avoiding ads by not paying seems to do the trick rather nicely. The quality and variety is better than what I can find on any one streaming service, too.

      1. dleslie · 1790006588 · focus · HN ↗

         I highly recommend asking if your library has access to Kanopy. It's a video streaming service for libraries, and works on a monthly token system.

         My local library has access to Kanopy, Libby, and Blackstone. And as a Canadian, I've got CBC gem as well.

         The available library of films, documentaries, books, and so forth is enormous. All bereft of ads, and mostly bereft of slop.

         1. persedes · 1790007166 · focus · HN ↗

            For now at least:

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            1. dleslie · 1790010638 · focus · HN ↗

               Ugh. It&#x27;s never enough, is it? They can&#x27;t simply be happy making a decent profit and maintaining a reasonable customer relationship.

               They always have to squeeze, crush, and destroy. Rob every customer, ruin every product, so they can enrich themselves.

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