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At least Google's main revenue, Adsense, is shared with other people. Publishers, websites and apps that voluntarily choose their Ad service.
by trpc 7y ago
At least Google's main revenue, Adsense, is shared with other people. Publishers, websites and apps that voluntarily choose their Ad service.
- anticensor 7y agoFacebook also has an ad service. Social network users contribute voluntarily too.
- trpc 7y agoThe difference is that the vast majority of users are unaware that their content is making other users stay within Facebook as long as possible and feed it with more data to make money for Facebook alone.
- Fnoord 7y agoGoogle Maps is community driven as well. I contributed to it, then I was like "wait, why am I not contributing to OSM instead?" Google does give rewards for the contributions but they're laughable compared to the amount of time you put into the work.
- skinnymuch 7y agoMost people pick Adsense because it’s the de facto service to use. Name a competitor to Adsense for your average small site that doesn’t take a lot of work or pay a lot less in aggregate. It’s not the same as truly voluntarily using it. Adsense isn’t Google’s main revenue or profit source either. That would be AdWords and specifically ads on their own properties.
- mxd3 7y agoTheir main revenue is actually Adwords.