Ads make nice things crappy. Not just because of the ads and spying that comes along with them, but also because when a product or service is ad-driven, then it becomes optimized to increase ad revenue rather than being a good product.
"...for the negligible price of occasionally having to look at ads..."
"negligible price" and "occasionally" are outright lies in just that one tiny snippet of this opinion piece. I was going to highlight more, but there are just too many. Read this article if you love examples of private industry using rhetoric techniques straight from 1984
Ads make nice things crappy. Not just because of the ads and spying that comes along with them, but also because when a product or service is ad-driven, then it becomes optimized to increase ad revenue rather than being a good product.