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Yes, but it is still a valid counterexample to: > I think ads will inevitably roll out across all tiers
by throwaway150 9mo ago
Yes, but it is still a valid counterexample to:
> I think ads will inevitably roll out across all tiers
- sodapopcan 9mo agoI think they're saying it's inevitable for billion dollar capitalist companies. /not-s And anyway, companies that just want to make a really good living doing what they love are lame. /s
- dmd 9mo agoIt's really not, though. If a "valid counterexample" can be something with, say, one user, then I can make a "valid counterexample" to literally anything you choose, but that's meaningless.
- Teever 9mo agoSomeone is showing that they can deliver similar products or services without ads. It’s comparable. Not every corporate entity needs to become a behemoth to be successful.
- MontyCarloHall 9mo agoKagi is too small and niche to have a proprietary dataset across its users large enough to make targeted advertising generate more revenue than subscriptions. OpenAI/Google/etc. operate at a much larger scale, large enough for those proprietary user datasets to be worth far more in ad revenue than any reasonable subscription fee could net.
- throwaway150 9mo ago> Kagi is too small and niche to have a proprietary dataset across its users large enough to make targeted advertising generate more revenue than subscriptions. All of this is true. But I don't understand why you are contesting @dsr_'s comment that Kagi is a counterexample. Both are true. Kagi is too small. Yes. And Kagi is a counterexample to your original "I think ads will inevitably roll out across all tiers" claim. You said nothing about being too big or too small in that claim. So @dsr_'s comment that Kagi is a counterexample is very much on point.
- account42 9mo agoI don't think a seven your old company is a counterexample to the inevitability of anything.