dotcoma

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by dotcoma 5mo ago
So, the average user from Canada, the UK, Germany, Japan etc is worth 1% of the average US user or less? Do you wear a red baseball cap?
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
Why ?
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
I think you are right on this point.
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
Let's say 100 M ?
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
No. They are saying 1605 USD is the average amount Google make from a user in the US.
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
Correct. If 250 M people use it in the US out of a population of 349 M, Google would make 401 B USD out of them, vs 403 B USD in worldwide revenues. These numbers do not look right to me.
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
There's a problem... Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
That was a looooooong time ago!
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
For the same reason Facebook, Instagram etc accept AI-generated videos. All they care about is how much time you waste on their platform.
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
Also, influencer advertising is a different beast, it's not standard advertising. More like PR or testimonials.
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
I second your request. I don't live in the US. I am familiar with Warby Parker and, to a lesser extent, with Gymshark and Liquid Death, but it needs to be proven that they became well known thanks to online advertising. I have no idea
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
> But there exist branding ads on the internet. Which ones, for example?
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
I tend to upload stuff to filen.io and share from there.
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
Perhaps it’s just me. I’m not a very social person, and it seemed like I had to reconnect with people I had gladly forgotten, or ended up having arguments with people I barely knew but had somehow ‘friended’, or with their friends. I firs
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
I wrote a very short ebook on the subject some 10 years ago, 15 Questions About Online Advertising. It should be available for free on Apple Books, Google Books, Kobo etc, or for 0.99 on Amazon.
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
It works very well for the HUGE players who sell it, Google, Meta, Amazon and not many more. It can help a small advertiser get a small number of customers to try out their offering. It does not and will not create brands. If you disagree,
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
Not that the ‘social’ part was ever very good in the first place, but they are right, it’s not social anymore.
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What's New in Firefox 150(firefox.com)
6 points by dotcoma 5mo ago|1 comments
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by dotcoma 5mo ago
I use Helium.
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Is Helium the Browser Brave Was Meant to Be?(itsfoss.com)
2 points by dotcoma 5mo ago|0 comments
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by dotcoma 6mo ago
Socialism for the rich and rugged capitalism for the poor -- MLK
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by dotcoma 6mo ago
What could go wrong?
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New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production(anthropocenemagazine.org)
122 points by dotcoma 6mo ago|184 comments
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by dotcoma 6mo ago
As a reward or as a punishment?
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by dotcoma 6mo ago
I know for sure that e-voting has been a thing for years now in Estonia, perhaps the country most subject to Russian attempts to tamper with voting.
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by dotcoma 6mo ago
It's hard to disagree with you. What would be worth asking is: Why? And also: What can be done to change this in the future?
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by dotcoma 6mo ago
> So, we have a largely moderate-right party in power and a far-left party out of power. I'd say you -- mind you, I'm writing from the other side of the Atlantic, and even if I have lived in the US, that was a long time ago! --
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by dotcoma 6mo ago
Well done, my KGB agents!
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by dotcoma 6mo ago
Perhaps because pretty much nobody likes the Dems, either?
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Tesla (TSLA) Q1 2026 earnings preview: the growth story is dead(electrek.co)
5 points by dotcoma 6mo ago|0 comments

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