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Would you be willing to pay for the content you get for free from sites like YouTube, Reddit, and HackerNews?
by tills13 5y ago
Would you be willing to pay for the content you get for free from sites like YouTube, Reddit, and HackerNews?
- throwaway5486nv 5y agoYou assume that product must exist. It does not have to.
- laurent92 5y agoIf you pay, you still get tracked. PS: And now they have your name, address, email and CC on file.
- XorNot 5y agoAlso an important data point: (1) you have disposable income and (2) you are willing to pay.
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- Firmwarrior 5y agoI'd be willing to pay the 5 cents a month or whatever it works out to be
- motoxpro 5y agoIf you're talking Facebook in the US, it will be ~40$, I would think it would be around the same for Youtube. https://www.adexchanger.com/investment/google-reveals-youtubes-ad-revenue-15b/ https://www.adexchanger.com/investment/google-reveals-youtub...
- NelsonMinar 5y agoYoutube at least puts a price on this: $12/mo. $18 for a family of 5.
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- doliveira 5y agoAnd then you can't use the incognito mode when you don't want to mess up your recommendations.
- rdlw 5y agoYouTube has a setting to pause watch/search history. I'm sure they still track these things being the scenes, but I've found that removing videos from watch history is enough to keep similar things off my feed.
- doliveira 5y agoYeah, that's something I don't trust at all: that they don't feed it into every single machine learning model available to them. The ad industry as a whole is absolutely untrustworthy. Even you pay you can't trust not to be tracked.