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How will search engines make money if not by ads? How will free webmail providers exist? How do other businesses do it? By providing goods and services the cus
by gaius 9y ago
How will search engines make money if not by ads? How will free webmail providers exist?
How do other businesses do it? By providing goods and services the customer wants at a fair price. Radical I know, it’s only worked for like, thousands of years...
- Buge 9y agoYes. But locking everything behind a paywall will have significant negative effects for people who can't afford to get past the wall. Ads provide wealth redistribution. Resources are given to poor people subsidized by rich people.
- gaius 9y agoAds provide wealth redistribution. Resources are given to poor people subsidized by rich people. Don’t kid yourself. If the major platforms could exclude those who aren’t in their advertisers demographics they wouldn’t waste a single server on them.