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I think there's only so much you can complain about a free service. I would bet that you couldn't convince 50% of the existing users to pay $5/month to get a fu
by wildework 8y ago
I think there's only so much you can complain about a free service. I would bet that you couldn't convince 50% of the existing users to pay $5/month to get a fully private version of any Google service. In my experience, people value convenience (as in it's more convenient NOT to spend any money on something) more than they value privacy.
I'm not saying you don't have a valid point, you're just not in a position to make it.
- reddit_clone 8y agoWe may not pay cash to use it. We pay dearly with our information. It is not free.
- finchisko 8y agoYou're overestimating the price of your information.
- finchisko 8y agoPeople complain about free service doing that and not that, but very few would actually pay monthly fee for the features they're asking for. I would say the percentage of paying customers would far lower than 50%, maybe less than 10% globally. Google could introduce payed alternative with all user tracking off. But I understand it's not worth the money to implement and maintain such a product for limited group of people. The only benefit it could bring is that then they can say: "Hey, you don't like us to track you? Go with payed alternative.". And nobody can ever complain to not have an alternative. <sarcasm> With same logic, people complain about the adds too, so I guess the youtube premium (red) subscriptions must be booming. </sarcasm>