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Average user can't afford pay for all the free service they receive. If each user had to pay $20 a month for even only the top twenty websites they use and this

Average user can't afford pay for all the free service they receive. If each user had to pay $20 a month for even only the top twenty websites they use and this would be beyond the reach of the average user; Google, Facebook, Free Apps, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Twitter, etc.

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avian 10y ago
Is there a way to actually estimate how much money I would have to give per month to compensate for the ads I see on the web? Perhaps some browser plugin that counts ad impressions? I doubt that any one web site makes $20 per month from my visits.
- saycheese 10y ago
  Appears AVG used to have an estimator called PrivacyFix, but site is now dead. Here's a story covering it: http://adage.com/article/digital/worth-facebook-google/293042/ http://adage.com/article/digital/worth-facebook-google/29304... Author claims the tool estimated that their value to Google alone would have been $200+ and explains why too.
- candiodari 10y ago
  http://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlouis/2013/08/31/how-much-is-a-user-worth/#d6e57f492a9b http://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlouis/2013/08/31/how-much... Relevant data repeated here. Per-user revenue for some sites: Google: $10.09 Facebook: $1.63 (although has since doubled) LinkedIn: $1.53 Yahoo: $1.81
  - avian 10y ago
    Interesting. Note that these numbers are per quarter, so according to this, average revenue even for Google is only around $3 per user per month.
jlarocco 10y ago
I don't know about that. I'm sure $20 is too much for some people, but in the United States, at least, $20 isn't much compared to the other costs of accessing the web. It's very easy for a DSL, cable, or mobile contract to cost $50-150 a month already.
- daveFNbuck 10y ago
  $20/month for each of the top 20 sites you use is $400/month.
- cwyers 10y ago
  He's saying $20 per service, though. The way to make the economics work is the same way the economics of cable TV work - bundling.
  - jlarocco 10y ago
    Oh, sorry, I misread. $20 per month per service seems like a ridiculously huge jump for services that are currently "free with advertising," though. Surely nobody is making $20 per user per month with advertising. At $20 a month per service the bigger problem would be people like me who can afford it just fine but don't think most services provide nearly that much value.

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avian 10y ago

Is there a way to actually estimate how much money I would have to give per month to compensate for the ads I see on the web? Perhaps some browser plugin that counts ad impressions? I doubt that any one web site makes $20 per month from my visits.

saycheese 10y ago
Appears AVG used to have an estimator called PrivacyFix, but site is now dead. Here's a story covering it: http://adage.com/article/digital/worth-facebook-google/293042/ http://adage.com/article/digital/worth-facebook-google/29304... Author claims the tool estimated that their value to Google alone would have been $200+ and explains why too.
candiodari 10y ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlouis/2013/08/31/how-much-is-a-user-worth/#d6e57f492a9b http://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlouis/2013/08/31/how-much... Relevant data repeated here. Per-user revenue for some sites: Google: $10.09 Facebook: $1.63 (although has since doubled) LinkedIn: $1.53 Yahoo: $1.81
- avian 10y ago
  Interesting. Note that these numbers are per quarter, so according to this, average revenue even for Google is only around $3 per user per month.

jlarocco 10y ago

I don't know about that. I'm sure $20 is too much for some people, but in the United States, at least, $20 isn't much compared to the other costs of accessing the web. It's very easy for a DSL, cable, or mobile contract to cost $50-150 a month already.

daveFNbuck 10y ago
$20/month for each of the top 20 sites you use is $400/month.
cwyers 10y ago
He's saying $20 per service, though. The way to make the economics work is the same way the economics of cable TV work - bundling.
- jlarocco 10y ago
  Oh, sorry, I misread. $20 per month per service seems like a ridiculously huge jump for services that are currently "free with advertising," though. Surely nobody is making $20 per user per month with advertising. At $20 a month per service the bigger problem would be people like me who can afford it just fine but don't think most services provide nearly that much value.