Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law

Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by mr_toad on Thursday September 19, 2019 @07:05PM (#21021634)

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.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by terragon on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:59AM (#21023894)

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).

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by buboard on Friday September 20, 2019 @03:16AM (#21023986)

Why would they do that? They re not required to charge according to their costs

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