Re:Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point
by pdonis on Saturday January 26, 2019 @02:50PM
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> an actual user preference for 'free with ads and less privacy'
Users don't have a preference for less privacy; that's not the choice they're presented with. They're presented with no choice at all: just "free". The "less privacy" part is never explained to them up front or given to them as an explicit choice; it comes out later when the companies get caught.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point
by pdonis on Saturday January 26, 2019 @02:38PM
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> an actual user preference for 'free with ads and less privacy' as opposed to 'paid'.
In other words, the businesses aren't providing anything worth paying for, since users won't pay for it.
This is quite plainly false.
It's a little flippant to suggest that all these industries that currently depend on ads are just 'stupid' and they're 'doing it wrong'.
There are hard dynamics at play here, and when one is confronted with them directly (usually by being in such a business), then one develops an intimate understanding of them.
There have been countless experiments with various things like micropayments etc. but the dynamic still tilts towards an actual user preference for 'free with ads and less privacy' as opposed to 'paid'.