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0 pointsTaek6d ago0 comments

> Unfortunately, the Waymo only supported Spotify and did not work with my YouTube Music subscription, so I was listening to an advertisement at the time of my near-death experience. 4.5 stars overall.

This detail sent me, it's crazy that we can pay $25 to have a life saving robot take us across the city yet Spotify is going to blast ads at us the whole time for the sake of making an extra $0.18 (yes that's the actual number) per hour of listening time.

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himata41136d ago

That's around 44.64 (0.18831) per month, no wonder ads are preferrable to companies over subscriptions! That's actually a lot for people that listen to music all day every day at work.

kulahan6d ago

Google was famously really resistant to ads at first. They wanted to do a subscription service of some kind, but honestly ads just brought in so much more revenue even back then that it was a nigh-inevitable decision. It produces a crazy amount of economy.

I still loathe ads though.

whatever16d ago

Imagine your last thing in your mind being an ad about mongoDB.

0x3f6d ago

I actually find those amusing because they just make me remember the 'web scale' meme.

IshKebab6d ago

It's kind of wild how you have so many ads targeted at devs in SF.

bombcar6d ago

It’s like all the ads at airports clearly aimed at C-level execs.

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borski6d ago

They know their market. :)

DetroitThrow6d ago

Thanks for that thought. Horrible.

amelius6d ago

> it's crazy that we can pay $25 to have a life saving robot take us across the city yet Spotify is going to blast ads at us the whole time for the sake of making an extra $0.18 (yes that's the actual number) per hour of listening time.

Oh, the self driving car business will get there, believe me. This is just the first iteration. Designed to get everybody on board with the idea.

jmalicki6d ago

I wonder if Waymo gets a cut. I also wonder if riding in a Waymo at the time signals that you're in a demographic that can afford a Waymo and thus get more expensive ads.

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