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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by darkpuma on Friday March 29, 2019 @03:09PM (#19524588)
It would only be a matter of time before they started showing ads to paying users too. Pay for a magazine subscription? Magazine is filled with ads anyway. Pay for a cable tv subscription? Filled with ads anyway. Pay for HBO? Get shameless product placement (they claim they don't take money for it, but that doesn't change the substance of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuIJVLrIAZQ) Pay for netflix? More product placement. Pay to see a movie? Ads before the movie, product placement throughout. Pay for Hulu? More like paying for ads.
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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by i_cant_speel on Friday March 29, 2019 @03:13PM (#19524618)
Yes, but you are purchasing the magazine, movie, or service. If you are paying Facebook specifically to remove ads from an otherwise free product, it's much harder to justify injecting ads anyways.

And if for whatever reason they do, you can just stop paying them.

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by dustindiamond on Saturday March 30, 2019 @09:57AM (#19529409)
That is why I got rid of my tv antenna and pay for cable television, so I don’t see any ads.
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