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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by buboard on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:08PM (#21020785)
except, the full sentence in the bill reads:

> including by charging the consumer who opts out a different price or providing the consumer a different quality of goods or services, except if the difference is reasonably related to value provided by the consumer’s dat

Doesnt that second part cancel the first part? Businesses can also pay money for data ... so facebook can switch to subsciption only, but pay its users with virtual coins for viewing ads

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by twanvl on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:11PM (#21020807)
> except if the difference is reasonably related to value provided by the consumer’s data

I think it means that if you opt out of data collection, then things like personalized recommendations will no longer work, which makes the services worse. That is a part of the service directly related to the data.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by oarabbus_ on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:11PM (#21021242)
>so facebook can switch to subsciption only

sure, if it wanted to fall out of the fortune 500.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by Marsymars on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:33PM (#21022517)
If Facebook can't convince its users that its service is worth paying an average of $2.5 per year for, I don't think it really deserves to remain in the Fortune 500.
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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by mokus on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:52PM (#21023208)
Where does $2.5/year come from? Other comments in this discussion have suggested that it would be more like $120/year in the US, or $25/year for a global average
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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by Marsymars on Friday September 20, 2019 @12:40AM (#21023376)
$2.5/year from each of their monthly active users would be sufficient to keep Facebook in the Fortune 500. (As referenced in the post I was replying to.)

(Tangentially, they would have to cut costs to remain profitable, but I figure it should be possible for 6k employees to maintain a set of services that people are willing to pay $2.5/year for.)

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