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> People sold ads profitably for hundreds of years without any sort of surveillance, and many people continue to do so today. If it were impossible to make mone
by jdminhbg 3y ago
> People sold ads profitably for hundreds of years without any sort of surveillance, and many people continue to do so today. If it were impossible to make money just selling ads (I wish it were) then billboards and bus stop posters
Billboards and bus stop posters are cheaper to run than Twitter.com is, so making much less money is ok.
The whole reason Twitter has always been unprofitable but Facebook/Meta is a trillion-dollar public company is that FB figured out how profitably identify users and serve them ads and Twitter didn't.
- burkaman 3y agoI agree with you, it is unquestionably more profitable to spy on people and then sell them ads. My point is that you can still make money without the spying part, and there is no reason for us to accept that the two always have to be bundled. If you can't make a profit without spying on people then your business model sucks. The fact that you might be able to make more money by being less ethical is not very interesting, that's true of almost anyone.