Yeah this is kind of monopoly power maybe - it’s not that they make $50/year extra from showing you ads, it’s that if the provide the option to skip ads it devalues their remaining advertising by $millions and so they need to force everyone to watch them.
If there was proper competition the log jam would get broken and it might be possible to just pay the incremental cost of what you viewing ads is worth.
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Yeah this is kind of monopoly power maybe - it’s not that they make $50/year extra from showing you ads, it’s that if the provide the option to skip ads it devalues their remaining advertising by $millions and so they need to force everyone to watch them.
If there was proper competition the log jam would get broken and it might be possible to just pay the incremental cost of what you viewing ads is worth.