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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by scrumbledober on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @11:13AM (#19442977)
This really puts things in to perspective. Subscription startups looking to get some percentage of the population to pay $10 a month can never reach the scale of google advertising when they are extracting nearly that much value on average from every single person.
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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by bduerst on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @12:27PM (#19443788)
Well that's part of the problem inherent with the subscription model, isn't it?

Google can make >$100 a click for ads on mortgages or insurance keywords, but subscription models are locked in to revenue that doesn't scale with the category of use - unless they become some sort of affiliate service.

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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by londons_explore on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:01AM (#19450249)
A friend of mine bought a house from a cost-per-click ad...

If the seller has $1000 per click, that's really going to distort the market...

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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by lostmsu on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:50PM (#19445485)
If you are comparing with Netflix, then you should consider family accounts, where many people share that $8/m
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