[Gehinnn]

The ads in Google also started like this. (However, to my knowledge, there is no way I can pay Google to get the ads in my search removed)

[wtfHN26]

IIRC many OTT streaming players found that they can make more money from Ads than they can from subscription alone.

So paying for a service alone doesn't ensure that you are not going to see Ads.

Once they have exhausted their potential market of paying users, almost every service will eventually resort to Ads.

[changoplatanero]

you can at least pay them to get the ads removed from youtube

[Jimmc414]

Not really. I’ve had YT premium for years and it removes the obtrusive ones, but I see ads in some form every time I use it.

[chasd00]

Probably means the perpetual “…speaking of security, let me tell you about our sponsor nordvpn…” that’s in every video on YouTube.

[bagacrap]

"if you're anything like me, ..."

[lnenad]

What? No?

[tomrod]

That can be done for free by more tightly managing your hardware platform.

[sdf2erf]

Forget about that, the founders literally said word for word that advertising ruins search quality in their seminal paper. They became the exact thing they fore-warned about their competitors at the time.

Down-right joke really. The people who idolise them are incredibly delusional.

[johnsmith1840]

Good people are moral for a million bucks but almost none are for a billion.

[sdf2erf]

lol pretty much. their reservation price was more than met.

Although considering Brin's interactions with female employees etc, no surprise really. They were full of it from the off. Page is better at hiding it.