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If Google and Facebook were nationalized, why would they need to sell ads?
by panic 9y ago
If Google and Facebook were nationalized, why would they need to sell ads?
- poooogles 9y agoSame reason that BBC Worldwide does.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- dragonwriter 9y agoThe same reason the postal service does. They still have to pay the bills.
- majewsky 9y agoI could see Facebook and Google move to a subscription-style model. People would easily pay, say, 3$ per month for Facebook and 5$ per month for Google if it was the only option. (Prices should be lower in less developed regions, of course.) Once freed from the prime directive of collecting increasing amounts of data to improve ad tracking, operating and development costs should be much lower than they are now, too.
- zild3d 9y ago> People would easily pay, say, 3$ per month for Facebook and 5$ per month for Google if it was the only option If people had to pay a monthly fee for search or social media, it would very quickly not be the only option anymore
- simonh 9y agoWhere would you prefer the funding to come from?