That's almost what Contributor is, but how could that possibly exempt you from tracking? They'd have to identify you to exempt you from it...

On a browser level? Some kind of google extension. Or just build in Chrome.

I’m guessing that is not even close to revenue generated. I was told by a pandora engineer a few years ago if all users paid for premium to drop ads they couldn’t stay afloat. It seems the ad industry is milking businesses and users have no choice in the matter.

Just because he worked there, doesn't mean he understands the economics of the business.

A premium account is $10/mo.. or $30/quarter. Pandora is part of sirius now.. but spotify has revenue of about 5.50/user/quarter.

Either Pandora is 6x more effective at monetization than Spotify (very unlikely), or that engineer was wrong.

If this is true why did they constantly inundate you with ads to upgrade to premium? They should have been trying to actively hide the fact they have premium.

https://fundingchoices.google.com/start/ ?

It's sort of related.