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When have we seen that pattern before?



Amazon Prime and any other service that went from "free with ads" and "paid ad-free" to adding a "paid with ads" and "pay even more to remove the ads you used to have removed".

This includes Windows as a whole. It's almost incredible how many different settings you have to dig into to get most of them out.


Microsoft Edge comes to mind


Facebook and Microsoft Windows come to mind.

Also, companies making opt-in features silently into opt-out ones.


Features that require quite sizeable server resources?




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