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by jacques_chester 3928 days ago
Contributor is almost the correct model, but the wrong company. It directly cannibalises the revenue stream that Google totally relies on: advertising.

That's why they made it a sliding scale, instead of a fixed no-ads-ever package.

And I expect that the more "successful" it is, the more watered down it will become. Like cable TV: the promise was "no ads". Then there were ads.