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by zamadatix 262 days ago
Wait long enough and it seems like almost any company tries anything to increase its bottom line, but the main difference between ChatGPT and Google is at least ChatGPT attempts to give a paid option. Again, I don't think that'll stop them from ever getting to that point... but it'll go farther than "here's search, we pay for it via adtech".

Kagi is a similar boat - the product is what you pay for, not what they can get users to put up with.
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firejake308 262 days ago
> at least ChatGPT attempts to give a paid option. Again, I don't think that'll stop them...

Netflix also attempted to give a paid option, but now we have an "ad-supported" plan. I think that same logic of maximizing profit means that even if there are some people paying for ChatGPT, the amount of free money that is sitting on the table means that we will see "ad-supported" ChatGPT pretty soon once the low-hanging fruit for quality enhancement start to dry up, which is kind of already happening.

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zamadatix 262 days ago
I think the coexistence of ad supported plans is orthogonal to the above. E.g. Netflix still has an ad free plan, regardless of the other plans, but Google gives you no option.
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eru 262 days ago
Google's YouTube has an ad free plan, at least.
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TheDong 262 days ago
"And now let's introduce this video's Sponsor, SpywareVPN"

Yeah, sure, "ad-free plan". As long as you don't watch (what feels like) the majority of videos on the platform.

I pay for premium, but I'd gladly pay 4x as much if Youtube also required creators to mark sponsored segments and let them all get skipped automatically if you paid for youtube "double premium double ad free" or whatever.

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eru 262 days ago
The premium plan actually gives you a little button to fast forward sponsor segments. (Not sure, if that's also on the free plan?)

You are right, that you still need to hit that button. It would be need to trigger it automatically. As far as I can tell, creators already tag the relevant segments as sponsored for other legal reasons.

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Dylan16807 262 days ago
> As far as I can tell, creators already tag the relevant segments as sponsored for other legal reasons.

From what I've seen, the timeline usually doesn't call out exact sponsor segments and the only tagging applies to the entire video.

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Dylan16807 262 days ago
Wait, what VPNs are you accusing of being spyware?
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