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You can charge for a killer feature everyone wants when you have no competitors who can offer it for free.

And you might have noticed that even today nobody uses services which puts ads into private communications. People are willing to pay the tiny amount required to skip those ads.

And from cable TV we know that every service where people can tolerate ads will contains ads sooner or later even when people pay money for it.



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