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This is a little, cart before horse; obviously, nothing is free. Charge customers. Go ahead. In the first place, Advertisers are the actual customers. Freemiu
by intended 5y ago
This is a little, cart before horse; obviously, nothing is free.
Charge customers. Go ahead. In the first place, Advertisers are the actual customers. Freemium models for retail consumers are a business choice.
People are notoriously bad at processing obscured costs. You see it with things like plastic pollution and waste - that cost is never added to the price of M&M packaging. Tomorrow if it were, people would respond logically and change their buying habits.
To call this entitlement, when its an issue of market structure, is to drive this conversation into identity and morality arguments.
The dominant models in tech are some version of freemium, because “network effects”.
Solve for that either technically or legally and you don’t have to start attributing blame where none exists.
- the_snooze 5y ago>Charge customers This. If something has commercial value, then put a price on it. We've had currency for thousands of years now. It's a really useful way of signaling value in a commonly understood way. Much more efficient than barter. Stop asking us to barter away data for services. If the service is truly worth something, then put a clear price on it and show some respect to your customers instead of trying to trick them.