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It's clearly not the only business model, it's just been proven time and time again to be a profitable one for certain classes of products.
by bpicolo 9y ago
It's clearly not the only business model, it's just been proven time and time again to be a profitable one for certain classes of products.
- zaphar 9y agoYou can make an argument that it's the only one that succeeds when pitted against the other models in the market. Micropayments have been tried and haven't yet succeeded at the necessary scale. Paywalls have had only very limited success. Ads are the only thing we've so far found that can scale a site to the level of Google or Facebook. This is both a problem and an opportunity.
- 908087 9y ago> Ads are the only thing we've so far found that can scale a site to the level of Google or Facebook. That sounds like an argument against the ad model, not for it.