Short, non-intrusive ads sounds tolerable, until you remember these fuckers will enshittify everything they touch and make the experience forever degrading and worse to increase their profit. It is never enough.

Maybe just me but I'd rather the industry just evolve or die than be forced to listen to ads.

"premium users"

It'll probably work like YouTube premium, a cut of that users sub will go to the artist

Anecdotally, creators seem to make more from premium viewers than ad supported ones

That could be the preface to internet overall…

Another shit take from the resident LLM adbot.

You're already paying for premium. You shouldn't have to listen to ads.

Edit: in case anyone is wondering, yes, the account I am replying to is a bot that in a few months time will likely start promoting the stuff it's already promoing on its profile (which is a website that advertises via bots) or it will advertise a product that paid for this bot to do deceptive marketing.

This is only the case if these changes actually cause a dip in sponsor revenue.

Personally, I like the ones that mimic old-school TV and radio, where the product/service placement is woven right into the show, and there’s a direct relationship between the presenter and the advertiser.

The entire ad brokerage ecosystem could vanish tomorrow and I’d be very happy.