>By your inflation-factoring-logic a fair regular plan should cost less than $12 and ad plan should be about $6. $9 is +50%

You're misunderstanding my comment. I'm not arguing that price hikes haven't occurred. In fact I specifically acknowledged them. I'm only making the narrow argument that despite implications to the contrary, the ad supported plan today is cheaper than the paid plans. In other words the implication that "we're paying more and still have ads" is false.

They didn't say "we're paying more and still have ads". They said they would have to pay a lot to still get ads.

Maybe it's not your reality, you consider $110 a year for netflix with ads as cheap. It might be different for someone else.

>you consider $110 a year for netflix with ads as cheap

I mean, if you're so fervently against ads to the extent that paying a single cent is "a lot", then I suppose it's true, but it's highly subjective. By most reasonable comparisons (ie. ads vs non-ad price today, ads vs historical ad price), it's not "a lot".

It's "a lot" more than I've ever remotely considered paying to be advertised to, I'll say that