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Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan (www.macrumors.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cable companies did the cable model because it was profitable. Netflix and others are slowly realizing that and moving towards it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yup. It was the same enshittification process. "Subscribe to cable. We don't have commercials!" Then a few years later, "Guess what?!? You're getting commercials!"