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No,they want content that advertising paid for and are totalky fine with advertising. They just don't want surveillance or "efficiency" as you call it.

So what changes? Currently you can buy ads and you can buy surveillance, which costs about 3x as much. If surveillance stops being an option, there is no reason to believe prices for ads won't change. However, even if they didn't the only thing that would happen is that ads replace surveillance and the number and size of ads might change a bit. The end. Why is this a big deal to you?




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