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But then why won't Pinterest let me match whatever the advertisers are paying for my eyeballs for this year, and continue to gather data on me, just without sho
by giornogiovanna 7y ago
But then why won't Pinterest let me match whatever the advertisers are paying for my eyeballs for this year, and continue to gather data on me, just without showing me any ads? Oh, and maybe they could throw in some little inconsequential bonuses, just like Discord Nitro, so it doesn't just feel like paying for ads to be blocked. It sounds like everyone would win.
- dspillett 7y agoProbably because of the development and maintenance effort. It wouldn't actually take much such effort, but it might still be more costly than any benefit they'd get from the number of users who they think are likely to take part in such a scheme.
- edmundsauto 7y agoAlso, employee CPU cycle opportunity costs. These companies are interested in scale, so any employee's CPU cycles that are working on non-scalable stuff are basically wasted.
- scarejunba 7y agoBecause $100k of revenue is worthless at their scale. The feature may yield negative return after cost to build and maintain.
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago> why won't Pinterest let me match whatever the advertisers are paying for my eyeballs for this year The users who would opt out are likely educated and higher income. Taking them out of the pool reduces its value by a difficult-to-estimate amount to advertisers.