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A recurring revenue opportunity for Reddit would be to forget about the old defender of online freedom image, and sell data. :) "How much is it worth to your c
by neilv 3y ago
A recurring revenue opportunity for Reddit would be to forget about the old defender of online freedom image, and sell data. :)
"How much is it worth to your case, to know who the commenters on this thread are?"
"What would you pay to filter hiring candidates for ideology, troublemaker tendencies, or bedroom kinks that bother your conservative Chairman?"
"Your own actuaries can tell you how much money this individual vice data will save your insurance company, so let's split it."
"Making your astroturfing more effective, and getting full credit in your org for shifting perceptions, would be easier if you could crunch individual voting behavior."
"There's only so much censoring that bribed mods can do on the sub that keeps dumping on your brand. Seems like the private messages of your most influential critics would be useful to you. Oh, ha, I just pulled up the alts for one of them on my screen, and looks like they're secretly also an OnlyFans model."
"Would your government or department like to subscribe to the Access Plan or the Fusion Plan?"
Obvious idea: https://thenextweb.com/news/reddit-knows-your-dark-secrets https://thenextweb.com/news/reddit-knows-your-dark-secrets
- TeMPOraL 3y agoI'd love to see them try this, and then to watch the international backlash, not to mention holy GDPR fire raining down on their heads.
- neilv 3y agoI'd love to see other companies crushed for behavior like the above hypotheticals. To push the public and lawmakers to finally decide that corporate surveillance is evil. (Reddit still has positive karma balance, especially from earlier days, IMHO. There are many, many companies much more deserving of being made an example of.)
- wkat4242 3y agoGDPR doesn't apply if they're really frontier customers. As they're not in the EU.
- jowea 3y agoOh yes one my favourite ~~TED~~ Onion talk business case studies: "The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital - Onion Talks - Ep. 9" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8c_m6U1f9o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8c_m6U1f9o
- Terr_ 3y agoFor when you don't want to risk a Long Firm scam.