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A comment on Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months from launching.

Re:Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months ... by jliptzin on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:37PM (#18717501)
Figure out how much the average user brings in in revenue per month, add the option to disable all tracking for that amount per month. I don’t see what’s so hard. I’d imagine most people don’t care that much and the ones that do have an option now.
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Re:Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months ... by michaelt on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:48PM (#18717612)
Someone on HN explained the problem to me like so:

Assume Facebook brings in $10/user/month in ad revenue.

But the distribution is uneven; $50/user/month for rich westerners, $6/user/month for poor people in poor countries who outnumber westerners 10:1.

If you offer everyone the chance to go ad-free for $10/month, your income from rich westerners drops from $50 to $10 and your total revenue drops to $6.36/user/month.

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Re:Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months ... by thepangolino on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:29PM (#18717993)
They can pull a Tinder and charge arbitrary amounts.
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Re:Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months ... by IfOnlyYouKnew on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:00PM (#18717713)
That would not work, because of the following (quite neat) problem:

The users that are most valuable to advertisers are those with a lot of disposable income.

If you offer an ad-free experience for the value of the average user, far more of these high-income, high-value users would subscribe, both because they have the money and because they tend to be more privacy-conscious.

Imagine (simplified) losing ad income from the top 50% of your users for the price of your average user, while being left with only the bottom 50% to show ads to.

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Re:Facebook’s Clear History privacy feature is still months ... by ghostly_s on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:40PM (#18718088)
Put the opt-out price on a sliding scale that's adjusted quarterly per actual loss in revenue from users who drop out of the pool.
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