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Great. So set your agent to “show me adverts” and let the rest of use set our agents to “don’t show me adverts”.




Then we come to the rub: if "don't show me adverts" suddenly made common tasks (checking email, using a search engine) cost a bit of money, how many people would go for that?

Quite a few. Hence people who pay for Netflix, YouTube, etc.

Certainly I don’t have adverts when I check my email, does Hotmail etc do adverts now? I’m sure they didn’t back in the early 00s.


Hard to tell, as those 2 specific services are currently monopolized by a company who refuses to offer those specific services ad-free

Email certainly isn’t monopolised! I can think of at least 3 mainstream search engines - although all advert driven



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