Just received a Chatgpt privacy update and it stated:
Ads may appear on Free and Go plans. Plus, Pro, Enterprise, Business and Education plans do not have ads.
The enshittification begins…
Funny but people never talked about the enshitification of TV, which has had ads forever.
In fact, from my point of view, tv quality got worse with Netflix. Quality up, quality down. But then, maybe I’m just not the target audience.
I’m really grateful that I can afford to mostly not pay for adverts.
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I agree. I don’t have a UK TV license as I don’t want live TV. I won’t pay to watch adverts. I pay for Youtube as my kids need it for school and so no adverts. I see an advert maybe a couple of times a year.
IMO, the worst culprits are not TV but news outlets.
Although the language was very different back in the 1950s, this WAS talked about a lot in the UK before a single commercial TV network supported by advertising was allowed to join the public BBC (paid for by a licence to receive live TV and Radio from any source). Similar debates preceded the introduction of commercial radio and the massive expansion of TV channels later.
I wasn’t part of any of those debates (and wasn’t even alive in the early 1950s!), but the history and assumptions behind the BBC and the resistance to them from those who wanted things to be solely commercial because they ideologically believed in the “free market” is fascinating, satisfyingly complicated and still very much alive. I’d recommend the Origin Stories podcast. https://overcast.fm/+AA5yGUBFdL8