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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by opportune on Friday August 23, 2019 @06:29PM (#20783344)
If I could load, say, $10 into some Google account and in return that buys me complete exemption from tracking + ads on 10k site visits, I would absolutely do that in a heart beat. I wonder if they have thought about doing that yet
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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by naniwaduni on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:13PM (#20783696)
That's almost what Contributor is, but how could that possibly exempt you from tracking? They'd have to identify you to exempt you from it...
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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by KptMarchewa on Saturday August 24, 2019 @06:52AM (#20786447)
On a browser level? Some kind of google extension. Or just build in Chrome.
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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by notyourwork on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:35PM (#20783878)
I’m guessing that is not even close to revenue generated. I was told by a pandora engineer a few years ago if all users paid for premium to drop ads they couldn’t stay afloat. It seems the ad industry is milking businesses and users have no choice in the matter.
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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by rgbrenner on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:41PM (#20784597)
Just because he worked there, doesn't mean he understands the economics of the business.

A premium account is $10/mo.. or $30/quarter. Pandora is part of sirius now.. but spotify has revenue of about 5.50/user/quarter.

Either Pandora is 6x more effective at monetization than Spotify (very unlikely), or that engineer was wrong.

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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by JohnJamesRambo on Saturday August 24, 2019 @01:26AM (#20785415)
If this is true why did they constantly inundate you with ads to upgrade to premium? They should have been trying to actively hide the fact they have premium.
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Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection by CydeWeys on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:42AM (#20787372)
https://fundingchoices.google.com/start/ ?

It's sort of related.

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