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Another commenter pointed out that Giphy is integrated into many products and buying Giphy is a way to get metrics about those products.
by yreg 6y ago
Another commenter pointed out that Giphy is integrated into many products and buying Giphy is a way to get metrics about those products.
- Macha 6y agoFor $400m?
- rhacker 6y agoEyeballs. It's used casually by many millions of people daily. That's all that's needed to justify price.
- scared2 6y agoMakes more sense. But it is easy to replace it with another giphy. Especially when there is privacy reason.
- johannes1234321 6y agoQuestion os: How many will switch it out? Giphy has a big collection of images and works ... swapping is effort and brings different (unexpected?) results.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoCreate a proxy that exfiltrates their active database while providing anonymity.
- johannes1234321 6y agoAgain, a small number of people might do that, if one gets too large by chance Giphy/Facebook will attempt to block them. Most users and integrations will be kept. As people stay on WhatsApp etc.