Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by buboard on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:30PM
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Hardly. It doesnt seem the law will affect the business, it will just make the cost of data collection explicit: "Pay $40/month to use facebook or get a free rebate by enabling ads".
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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by mr_toad on Thursday September 19, 2019 @07:05PM
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It doesn’t cost anything like $40 per month per user to operate Facebook, it’s not even $40 per year. (Facebooks operating revenue per user in 2018 was about $25).
Of course, they’d hate the idea of having a fixed revenue per user. They want to keep sucking out more revenue per user until the well runs dry.
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law
by terragon on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:59AM
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Yeah, but that's averaged across their global users. Stands to reason that most people in developing nations will not pay $25/mo to access Facebook; nor is their data worth that much.
Ergo, Facebook will charge a different rate per nation; per state; ideally per user (they already have all the data they need to calculate exact revenue per user based on their data).