About a year and a half ago, the credit card I was using to pay for YouTube Premium expired and for about a day, I was subjected to ads on YT—it was horrifying.
Once you go ad-free, it's hard to go back. I'd happily pay for an ad-free version of every service I use.
Scott Galloway has been suggesting that Twitter move to a subscription model, with all accounts with less <5000 followers be free, subsidized by a progressive monthly fee for larger accounts based on number of followers above 5000.
This would serve dual purpose of eliminating a whole heap of bots and fake accounts, forcing them to be tied to a credit card. With Twitter earning recurring revenue from whales, along with reducing or eliminating personal data aggregation for ad-targeting, I can't see a downside.
I'm curious on how the dynamics would change in that system. Frankly I think it would make everything quite a bit worse. I think one of the only benefits of twitter is that it allows organic popularity. Once you add penalties for getting too popular, people will need to make up that cost. What will happen is large accounts will start to advertise in their tweets, essentially defeating the purpose of removing advertising.
Plus, you could then weaponize bots against smaller accounts on a large scale
Im paying for Google Storage, Youtube Premium and would like one fee where I dont see any ads at all.