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There's one big difference here, I'd bet. Do you have children? Or a spouse? Because as assiduously as you can corral your own content for pesky ads there will be devices, services, and platforms that your children or your spouse use that will leak into your life.

The day your child asks you why youtube keeps giving him ads for diabetes medication and you have to face your still unresolved feelings about your mother's death and explain that he'll probably one day have to have daily injections and a few toes amputated and maybe deal with kidney failure is the day you'll probably feel the same as the author of this article.




I pay YouTube not so I don't see ads, but so my kids don't see ads.


Family requires compromise and, like diplomacy, cannot effectively function with unlimited transparency.


Ouch! Thanks for the very vivid argument.


I don't think a hyperbolic unlikelihood is a good argument that the poster will feel like the blogger one day.




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