Ad-free streaming has become a luxury for the wealthy

Streaming, once a cheaper escape from cable TV, is increasingly resembling it in both price and structure. Platforms have broadly shifted to ad-supported tiers as the default affordable option, pushing ad-free plans into higher price brackets. The piece comes from The Verge's weekly tech newsletter The Stepback.

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