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Advertising puts an upper limit on the value of content it's possible for you (or anyone) to see. With advertising, you are never shown content that is more valuable than the ads you're being sold to.
Other payment models allow you to buy more expensive content than your time is worth to advertisers.
Hence why very expensive content (like popular feature-length movies) are rarely paid entirely by advertising. Even with hundreds of product placements and an expensive ticket, movie theatres still have to overcharge for concessions to pay for the movie.
Advertising puts an upper limit on the value of content it's possible for you (or anyone) to see. With advertising, you are never shown content that is more valuable than the ads you're being sold to.
Other payment models allow you to buy more expensive content than your time is worth to advertisers.
Hence why very expensive content (like popular feature-length movies) are rarely paid entirely by advertising. Even with hundreds of product placements and an expensive ticket, movie theatres still have to overcharge for concessions to pay for the movie.