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The insane thing to me is that they've barely gotten started on monetising outside the Facebook feed. They've taken that, injected ads and garbage until it's us
by mcintyre1994 9y ago
The insane thing to me is that they've barely gotten started on monetising outside the Facebook feed. They've taken that, injected ads and garbage until it's useless for me and almost everyone I know, and billions still use it every day. Me and almost everyone I know use some combination of instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, and they could inject way more ads into all of those. I'd probably end up not using them any more, but that's clearly not representative. It's insane how much un-monetised space they have right now.
- fwn 9y agoA problem with monetizing messaging is that messaging services are a commodity. Buying WhatsApp mitigated this problem. Still: Fancy non-messaging features aside, I have at least two or three functionally identical channels I use to talk to my contacts. If one service gets too clumsy with content injection I could probably change the channel without the other end even noticing it.