Re:Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point
by dennisgorelik on Saturday January 26, 2019 @03:46PM
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> set the price at whatever the break-even point is
1) That paid option would remove the wealthiest part of the potential ad audience. The higher the break-even point is - the wealthier slice of audience it will remove.
2) Such premium option may, actually, work. For example, Youtube has $11.99 per month Premium subscription option. Did you sign up for that?
3) I am not sure if Facebook will implement that premium option, because managing ads-free premium option would add complexity to their codebase.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point
by pdonis on Monday January 28, 2019 @12:16AM
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> Youtube has $11.99 per month Premium subscription option. Did you sign up for that?
Why should I? I have no need for ad-free YouTube since I hardly ever watch it anyway.
What I would like, as I said upthread, is to be able to pay for basic Google search so I can have my search results not cluttered with ads.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point
by dennisgorelik on Saturday January 26, 2019 @03:40PM
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Thank you -- yes, I meant $70/year (too late to edit it now).
I think you mean "willing to pay $70/year". Fine, set the price at whatever the break-even point is (how much FB thinks they can make from ads for the type of person they expect to be willing to pay for the free version). At least then we'd be able to make a choice. Right now, we have none.