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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by munk-a on Thursday April 25, 2019 @05:48PM (#19752818)
That sounds fine by me - in compensation for the lost revenue they would gain a bunch of public good will and lose some risk for a repeat of cambridge analytica.

Also that seems way way up since in 2017 they made only 6.18$ in Q4[1]... so who's suddenly paying so much money for our user data?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/facebook-earnings-q4-2017-ar...

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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by askafriend on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:09PM (#19753382)
The number you're referencing is for 1 quarter and is looking at a blended global average which is brought down by extremely long term investments in places like Africa.

I cited a number that is annual and is looking at North American revenue which is an indicator of mature market potential.

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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by jay_kyburz on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:37PM (#19753152)
That is for a quarter, so $2 a month or $24 on the annual plan.

One day I'm going to build this premium Facebook clone that respects user privacy!

Come on Hacker News, make it so I don't have to!

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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by GoblinSlayer on Friday April 26, 2019 @05:44AM (#19755933)
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