[thfuran]

>I don't get why it matters so much to people. It's all just incentives aligning

Adding advertising into the mix almost always makes the incentives align more poorly with the customer's interest. For example, the refrigerator manufacturer now has an incentive to increase food spoilage to increase ad conversions.

>Having a subscription can actually be beneficial in terms of incentive to keep up supporting the product in my view

So you want to pay them to show you ads in the hopes that that means they don't stop supporting your refrigerator? What does that even mean? They're not going to extend your warranty.

[mewpmewp2]

No I pay for subscription for them to not show ads and for them to have an incentive to keep the product working well as long as possible.

Because if the product stops working, I also stop paying subscription.

Right now there's an incentive to make short lasting products to have customer buy a new one, but with subscription the incentive changes.