100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web

Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by PeterStuer on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:52AM (#20993044)

I do not agree with your premise. The amounts that companies make of blatantly selling out your data to be abused is often much lower than I would be willing to pay. I pay for YouTube Premium primarily to get rid of the adds. I stopped using Facebook in 2017, but if I used it I would gladly pay the single digit dollars per year they seemed to make of me.

Now where i do agree is that even with people paying for content and services directly, advertizing would creep back in, because it would always be a potential supplementary revenue stream just sitting there tempting the content or service providers. This is where we need strong regulation such as the GDPR enforced to stem this general race to the bottom.

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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by dangrossman on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:41AM (#20995675)

Facebook's ad revenue for 2018 was $55.8 billion from 2.7 billion MAU. That means each user is worth $20.67 per year. In reality, not all users are worth the same, and as an English speaker, you're probably worth at least double the average. So, figure $40 a year to remove ads from Facebook, not single digits. Now what about the other 10,000 websites you touch each month?

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Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web by PeterStuer on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:10PM (#20997532)

About $50/month for a family plan should be fine for a completely add free internet. How that fee is distributed across the different sites I visit is an administrative issue.

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