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The Ala Carte Internet is Coming

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Subsidizing the Internet

Much of the internet, so much of the things that we use every day are driven basically because of ads. So essentially subsidizing what you do in the same way that television originated. Now people can get frustrated about ads. They can employ technologies like ad blockers to try and prevent them. But it has been a very, very efficient way to subsidize the internet for millions and in many cases billions of people. It feels like we're at the beginning of something that is starting to very much disrupt that.

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