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When I do pay for services, they can just add ads anyway to get more money. Look at Netflix or Amazon prime for this, or even cable.

How do I pay for something with a guarantee they'll leave the ad money on the table?

I pay for Ars, I pay for YouTube, I pay for discord nitro at the highest tier. Notice that all of those services are still ad funded?

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The same principle applies: You would have to leave the service when it starts introducing such things.

As a market-driving force in the real world, basically an impossible task for the collective. However, occasionally consumers do successfully band together to abandon a service due to some perceived slight.

I don't know about ars and discord, but netflix, prime, and yt all have ad-free and ad-subsidized options.

There is also the degree to which people consider something ad free. A character using an iPhone in a show could be considered an ad to some, and not noticed to others.

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