That tells you the true value of advertising to you. They make more than the take because they are an advertising company who has just built a stupid service to entice people to view the ads and give up their habits. They are undercutting their core business by offering an ad-free sub in the first place, which is why they overcharge for it. They’d rather make some money than none, but they hate that they can’t advertise to you.
Why serve a user base that won’t either pay money to view a video or watch ads that fund it?
Maybe if the subscription cost was just the amount of money they make off the ads…
That tells you the true value of advertising to you. They make more than the take because they are an advertising company who has just built a stupid service to entice people to view the ads and give up their habits. They are undercutting their core business by offering an ad-free sub in the first place, which is why they overcharge for it. They’d rather make some money than none, but they hate that they can’t advertise to you.