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> historically there have been and are plenty of other businesses at their scale that did/do not need this at all. Have we ever had an internet company with ov
by krn 8y ago
> historically there have been and are plenty of other businesses at their scale that did/do not need this at all.
Have we ever had an internet company with over 1 billion active users not using advertising as its main source of income?
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- Nextgrid 8y agoMicrosoft? Major ISPs and wireless carriers? Basically any company that has a real product that people need can succeed without advertising. Maybe the real answer is that Shitbook is just not worth paying for?
- krn 8y ago> Microsoft? Major ISPs and wireless carriers? These are physical businesses, not internet companies. Bing has ads. Twitter has ads. Reddit has ads. Yahoo! has had ads since 1990s.
- Nextgrid 8y agoHow is Microsoft a physical business? They provide services delivered online, just like Facebook, Google, etc does. > Yahoo! had ads since 1990s. Twitter has ads. Reddit has ads. And yet seems like Reddit is the only one doing somewhat good (and even then the community is pissed off and rightfully so, and without the community they'd suffer the same fate as the two former ones).
- krn 8y ago> How is Microsoft a physical business? A lot of its income comes from licensing Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, which are physical products. And where Microsoft competes with Google directly, it often shows ads just like Google does[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Ads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Ads
- jakear 8y agoO365 however does not, in contrast with Google Docs.
- manigandham 8y agoWhat's the definition of a "real" product? Is Google's search engine not real? Advertising as a business model is perfectly valid and has allowed billions of people to access things they otherwise wouldn't get.