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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point by dennisgorelik on Saturday January 26, 2019 @03:46PM (#19008387)
> 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.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point by pdonis on Monday January 28, 2019 @12:16AM (#19015457)
> 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.

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