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[–] TheDankHold@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I get that we all think entertainment products should be free but in a capitalist economy server space costs money. To deliver and maintain petabytes of data takes vast resources and in our society, those resources cost money. They keep it running through direct payment or auctioning ad space. So if you don’t want to get premium then they still need to pay for the upkeep of the service you’re using for free. Thus ads.

[–] linoor@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

The problem is that when you pay them they still track you and still sell your data.

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