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titzertoday at 4:16 PM1 replyview on HN

The coming AI enshittification is going to be epic. For those of us who have been on the web for more than five minutes, we can see this a mile away.

If you think search ads are annoying, pre-roll YouTube ads are annoying, streaming ads are annoying, or basically ads-on-any-screen-anywhere-at-any-time are annoying, just wait until every stupid thing is powered by AI and is subtly trying to manipulate you to buy/watch/believe some crap all the time.


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bryanlarsentoday at 4:44 PM

Jeopardizing a $200/month subscription in return for $1/month in ad revenue seems insane. Using ads on a $20/month subscription to entice you into a $200/month one, OTOH...

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