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I'll never understand why I can't pay Google and Facebook $20 to $50 per year to simply respect my privacy and not give me advertisements. I can't imagine they
by pentae 9y ago
I'll never understand why I can't pay Google and Facebook $20 to $50 per year to simply respect my privacy and not give me advertisements. I can't imagine they make more than this off my viewing behaviour (especially as I use adblock)
- whamlastxmas 9y agoUse fastmail instead of gmail and some alternative search engine that respects your privacy.
- dageshi 9y agoIt would probably raise them so little money at their scale it's not worth the trouble, that's why they don't do it.
- ooyy 9y agoThose people who are willing to pay $50 per year for such thing are worth more than 50$ per year as targets for advertising.
- r00fus 9y agoSort of like Youtube Red except for their search interface and other properties, too? Count me in. I subscribe to YT Red as well.
- uuuyno 9y agoBecause it's a boring, safe, traditional business model. Instead they've bet on harvesting and exploiting information about the behaviour of the many, to ultimately allow them to exert some 'control/influence' over individuals. And they're winning the business lottery with it. More shame us for only considering ourselves when deciding whether or not to use a service like google. I can choose not to use google/facebook, but if everyone else uses them, they'll still have incredible power over me through the insights they gleaned about everyone else