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So what you're saying... because they're not ad-supported, their products are cheaper to run and better for the environment because they're not burning countles

So what you're saying... because they're not ad-supported, their products are cheaper to run and better for the environment because they're not burning countless megawatt-hours of electricity to find data to sell to third parties?

danpalmer 3y ago
Not at all. I'm saying that by not being ad supported, they don't need 10 million users to be profitable. There's no profitable ad network with 1000 users, because no one cares about showing ads to 1000 users. However if you charge those 1000 users $100 a month, that's often a very nice business! Ad supported businesses need to scale to millions of users in order to be able to sell ads. The selling of the ads isn't necessarily a resource intensive process, but you need so many users to even have a market.