[Gehinnn]

The ads in Google also started like this. (However, to my knowledge, there is no way I can pay Google to get the ads in my search removed)

[wtfHN26]

IIRC many OTT streaming players found that they can make more money from Ads than they can from subscription alone.

So paying for a service alone doesn't ensure that you are not going to see Ads.

Once they have exhausted their potential market of paying users, almost every service will eventually resort to Ads.

[changoplatanero]

you can at least pay them to get the ads removed from youtube

[Jimmc414]

Not really. I’ve had YT premium for years and it removes the obtrusive ones, but I see ads in some form every time I use it.

[tomrod]

That can be done for free by more tightly managing your hardware platform.

[sdf2erf]

Forget about that, the founders literally said word for word that advertising ruins search quality in their seminal paper. They became the exact thing they fore-warned about their competitors at the time.

Down-right joke really. The people who idolise them are incredibly delusional.

[johnsmith1840]

Good people are moral for a million bucks but almost none are for a billion.