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Hardly. It doesnt seem the law will affect the business, it will just make the cost of data collection explicit: "Pay $40/month to use facebook or get a free re
by buboard 7y ago
Hardly. It doesnt seem the law will affect the business, it will just make the cost of data collection explicit: "Pay $40/month to use facebook or get a free rebate by enabling ads".
- mr_toad 7y agoIt doesn’t cost anything like $40 per month per user to operate Facebook, it’s not even $40 per year. (Facebooks operating revenue per user in 2018 was about $25). Of course, they’d hate the idea of having a fixed revenue per user. They want to keep sucking out more revenue per user until the well runs dry.
- terragon 7y agoYeah, but that's averaged across their global users. Stands to reason that most people in developing nations will not pay $25/mo to access Facebook; nor is their data worth that much. Ergo, Facebook will charge a different rate per nation; per state; ideally per user (they already have all the data they need to calculate exact revenue per user based on their data).
- buboard 7y agoWhy would they do that? They re not required to charge according to their costs