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I agree that there have to be limits , but it's not an 0/1 question. Facebook should even be treated as a special case because it's a monopoly, but again it's n

I agree that there have to be limits , but it's not an 0/1 question. Facebook should even be treated as a special case because it's a monopoly, but again it's not 0/1. I doubt they can offer the same service without targetting - facebook makes $100+ from each user in US or western europe. If they made 10% of that they couldn't offer to e.g. store all your photos and vids for free. And lets not kid ourselves, very few people would pay $100+ for facebook, even though it would be interesting to see them offer that option.

starbugs 8y ago
But people already pay that money (on average), just not directly to FB. If I need to lure users into using my platform by pretending to be "free" so I can get a monopoly going, then that just underlines my point of a non-viable business model.
- zerostar07 8y ago
  > If I need to lure users into using my platform by pretending to be "free" so I can get a monopoly going You just described every startup in SV, but in any case facebook did not have ads platform in its growth phase.