> It also reduces the cost of the subscription for you, the end user.
But I don't want to pay less. I want my data to not be sold to the highest bidder, that's all.
As it stands there's no option for people like me other than not subscribing.
This is very much like the situation with smartphones these days: they cost less because you get a bunch of bloatware that you can't uninstall.
I don't want that on my device, so I went with an offering deemed "overpriced" because it has less of such crap than others and thus costs about $250 more. Ideally it should be zero, but that's the best I could get.
> I want my data to not be sold to the highest bidder, that's all.
sigh I wish this was easier to achieve. But at least in the case of The Verge the sub removes third party ads so it should increase privacy even if it doesn't remove all the ads.
The fact is people like you are in the minority and there’s no reason for a company to ever even entertain modifications to their product/service to cater to your wants
This might seem common on HN but IRL people don’t give much attention to ad related privacy and are probably much more concerned with the fact they have to fork over a CC and a few bucks
But I don't want to pay less. I want my data to not be sold to the highest bidder, that's all.
As it stands there's no option for people like me other than not subscribing.
This is very much like the situation with smartphones these days: they cost less because you get a bunch of bloatware that you can't uninstall.
I don't want that on my device, so I went with an offering deemed "overpriced" because it has less of such crap than others and thus costs about $250 more. Ideally it should be zero, but that's the best I could get.