alt Hacker NewsThis is simply not (always) true. Spotify injects ads for Podcasts even for paying users. YouTube has tons of videos with adds built-in by content creators.
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simianwords • yesterday at 8:07 PM
this is an incorrect analogy - the platform is not showing ads but rather the creators themselves.
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Yep, and a lot of the streaming services listed also inject ads for their own shows into the "ad-free" tier's content (before it begins). Plus ads on the home-page.