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Canceled all my streaming subscriptions this year.
Final straw was HBO Max (in Europe). They don't have an ad subscription yet over here, but the app decided to pause my movie and show a pop-up ad for Barbie. There's no way I'm paying to be shown ads I didn't agree to.
It's wild that internet ads are such an accepted thing. Back when you paid per megabits of traffic (mobile and desktop too), you were basically paying for the bandwidth that got hijacked to show you an ad you weren't getting compensated for. We don't think about that now that everything is unlimited, but the concept is still valid. Unlike TV or radio, the internet has always been "pay for traffic".