We are already paying too much for all the services with subscription. Like Spotify, Netflix and others...
Their incentives would be aligned to users, not advertisers.
The ideological changes alone would be like living in a different world entirely.
Heck, maybe micropayments would become viable at that point.
[0] https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/416547/youtub...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322556, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433
Amazon does the same with product ads.
That's more like "paying to not see ads" than "paying for content".
Meanwhile spotify also has at least two autogenerated playlists of the songs you have chosen to play more than a few times. Literally "Here's the songs you recently took an interest in", and they do not fill your front page with that autogenerated playlist!
Because that copy they are shoving in your face is not Informing you of useful Features or Inviting you to try something we made, but is instead managed by the marketing department.
However they do not stop tracking you.
I just wish I had the option they have in the Netherlands. Where you can set the "Following" tab as the primary and it doesn't constanly revert back.
A judge decreed that that must be done for users in the Netherlands but it's not available anywhere else.