A major partner told John Riccitiello personally that it will not pay the Runtime Fee – and in the strongest possible terms.

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      11 months ago

      The advertising-as-income model is so baked into the internet now that not everything I use even offers paid tiers. That’s probably true for MOST of it. Further, not everything removes ads even after paying for it.

      Never mind the fact that I’ll sometimes visit a site one time in my life as part of a search result and then never again. I’m definitely not paying for that.