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While it isn't a perfect comparison, streaming platforms that have ad-subsidized subscriptions with ads (as the name suggests) certainly haven't been driven out by market competition.

I believe hysteria in this case is healthy, so we can end up with something closer the still fairly reasonable implementation of the streaming platforms, instead of the example here.


> streaming platforms that have ad-subsidized subscriptions with ads (as the name suggests) certainly haven't been driven out by market competition

which ones don't have an ad free tier?


YouTube didn't have an ad-free tier for a very long time


YouTube Red was released over a decade ago. I haven't watched ads on YouTube for about that long.


If YouTube was forced to offer an ad-free tier due to competition that supports the claim above.


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