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> Some software and entertainment providers just jam ads into everything, even for paying customers.

Sorry, but who are you referring to?

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Microsoft was putting ads in the Start Menu for a while, if I remember correctly.

They stopped?

AFAICT you just have to pay enough: Windows Professional versions can switch all such stuff off, also control the installation of updates, reboots, etc.

Sure, but as far as I know, they haven't stopped loading up the home editions with trash.

Paramount+ has ads in both their Essential and Premium plans:

From https://help.paramountplus.com/s/article/PD-What-plans-are-a...:

Essential - Stream with limited commercial interruptions for $4.99/month

Premium (formerly Commercial Free - all the benefits remain the same!) Watch with no ads for just $9.99/month...live TV streams have commercials, and a few shows include brief promotional interruptions to keep you in the loop on new and upcoming Paramount+ programming

> and a few shows include brief promotional interruptions to keep you in the loop on new and upcoming Paramount+ programming

I absolutely hate this trend. Whenever Prime Video does it I just get annoyed and skip either way.

So, they want to force us back to torrenting.

Twist my arm, why don't you?

Cable companies. But that fight should have been had in the 80s I think.

Are you referring to commercials on TV?

part of the deal with cable tv a few decades ago was that the cable channels didn't have ads because you paid for them directly every month. (local stations obviously had their usual ads).

Hulu is one, if you need an example.

Mmm, indeed. Although they began as a free ad-supported service. Certainly a peculiar case.

They have an ad-free tier still - it's just more expensive.

And it's still not "ad" free. They show all sorts of material that they can only license with ads in place in that tier.

And that's not even going into the whole "It's not an ad - it's a promotion for another one of our shows" crock of bullshit they pull.

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