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heresie-dabord on April 13, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Sta...

The "mature" state of consumerism will be that you/we will see advertising everywhere and have ads forced upon us.

And if you/we object, we will be told that our desire for living ad-free is as absurd as our desire for privacy.

jonnycomputer on April 13, 2024 [–]

I paid for Amazon Prime; shows were ad-free. Then they announced that they'd have ads. So I quit Prime. I'm not gonna pay to be advertised to. Other streamers tiered options make sense to me, and if I had to I'd pare down the service to meet budget.

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