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this seems to be the theme of the season mateys
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone
Having to watch ads isn't free. It costs me my time and it's limited.
Technically you pay to use Youtube by watching adds. People sometimes forget that there are no free lunches.
As long as there are CEOs getting payed more than i could earn in my life for one year, i'm good with my free lunch.
I feel your sentiment. But it's more about our impression that everything on the internet should be free.
There are people that hate subscriptions, paywalls, adds or that their personal data being sold. And yet they want to use all the services such as Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, etc. People want to have their cake and eat it too.
I am not saying that the number of adds and prices are not getting out of control but it makes sense to me that if I am not paying directly for certain services, I am paying for them with my personal data or an advertiser is paying for me instead.
There are, but they exist outside the market. Any company is going to want a return on its investment, and many people have even been trained to see themselves as “a business” and so operate transactionally in their personal lives, but many people don’t also. There are many people who do and give away many things with no expectation of return.
Someone smarter than me once said, "if your using a service, and it seems free, then YOU are the product being bought and sold"
I don't think this is always true, but it usually is.