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[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 68 points 1 week ago

Because they can. The objective of any company is to squeeze as much profit as they can. It's more lucrative to offer tiered services where you have to pay extra for no advertisements so they do it. If they realize enough people are leaving because of it they will reverse it.