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The collective value of your View/Clicks is far higher than $10 to advertizers per month. Most people wouldn't pay that amount. This is just like insurance. Ol
by harikb 3y ago
The collective value of your View/Clicks is far higher than $10 to advertizers per month. Most people wouldn't pay that amount.
This is just like insurance. Old people are subsidized by young. A rich person's View in the developed country is subsidizing Google just being available to a poor person elsewhere.
Don't assume that (a) people are ready to pay the true cost of running a site like Google without ads or (b) that it will even end up being a good thing for humanity overall.
- freedomben 3y agoVery fair point. The Law of Unintended Consequences could be a beast.
- bee_rider 3y agoWe should just let the market sort it out. If people don’t want to pay as much as a website needs to be run, they should just not use the website, it can go out of business if necessary, and space can be opened up for a more efficient service provider. I mean we’re basically allowing for an information asymmetry here, right? Which messes with supply and demand. Economists should be pissed.
- ponector 3y agoIsn't is already sorted out? Current model full of ads is the best for business.
- bee_rider 3y agoThe suppliers and the demanders can’t agree on an efficient price if the demanders don’t know what the price is.
- MereInterest 3y agoAnd while they haggle over the price of the megaphone, the rest of us who are about to be deafened don’t even factor into a market-based pricing.
- junofan 3y agoA monopolist is charging rent.
- seanp2k2 3y agoThe juiciest model is to make content that people go nuts for, like sports, then charge $100/mo for access to it, then run ads on top of that, i.e. what Comcast / Hulu do. You want the sports, so you have no choice but to pay what they demand and watch all the awful ads. They won't sell the rights to anyone because it's such a cash cow, and they know they don't even need to offer an ad-free experience, because the whole thing is just a gimmick to shove ads and marketing down throats in the first place.
- eastbound 3y ago> A rich person's View in the developed country is subsidizing Google just being available to a poor person elsewhere. I like having my mind turned upside down. Thank you for broadening my perspective.
- seanp2k2 3y agoAlso why scammers in poor countries are so dedicated; they can make many times what they would from working a legit job just by scamming your grandparents over the internet. They might only need a few successes per month to make it worth the time.