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We don't, but a model where a user pays for a service rather than being free and ad supported is significantly less likely to enact user unfriendly changes. If
by breakfastduck 2y ago
We don't, but a model where a user pays for a service rather than being free and ad supported is significantly less likely to enact user unfriendly changes.
If the way you make money is by convincing people to pay, you are highly incentivised to make the product good, especially where there are many other free competitors who are ad supported.
- glitchc 2y agoTell that to cable companies, sports broadcasts and now streaming services. The one incontrovertible fact of modern society is that ads eat everything else. No other revenue source compares.
- karma_pharmer 2y agoads eat everything else Well duh. Because it's the only value you're allowed to collect from retail customers without having to deal with either chargebacks or kyc. We've deliberately made every other form of micropayment infeasible. It shouldn't be surprising that the only one left is insanely popular.