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I understand; but as an excercise to better understand this problem I'll keep doing devil's advocate and I'll raise with:

What if my executive assistant reading the news website and giving me a digest?

Would the website owners rather prefer me doing my reading directly?



Yes. Because they want to own your attention and that only works if they are interfacing directly to you.

I remember that Samsung was at one time offering to play non-skippable full-screen apps on their newest 8K OLED TVs and their argument was precisely that these ads will reach those rich people who normally pay extra to avoid getting spammed with ads. Or going with your executive assistant example, there are situations where it makes sense to bribe them to get access to you and/or your data. E.g. "evil maid attack".




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