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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by TwoBit on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:04PM (#23316956)
Facebook would be perfectly happy to eliminate all ads if instead you paid a small or even tiny monthly fee. But you won't pay it.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:44PM (#23317331)
No, they wouldn't, unless advertising gets banned. They'd instead accept your payment and find a way to shove ads in anyway, in a covert or overt way, just as many paid services do, because why leave money on the table?
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by rockinghigh on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:53PM (#23317405)
YouTube and Spotify went that subscription route and it works well. There are no ads.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by CuriousSkeptic on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:26PM (#23318452)
Spotify is reliant on copyright exclusions to keep competing free services at bay. So aren’t really providing any value.

YouTube is still reliant on ads, and ad-funded content creators, and will continue serving you manipulative content wether you pay or not. So can’t really count that as a success either.

The thing is when you remove the ugly side of those business what remains can bee done better for free using p2p networks or federation over open protocols.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by solveit on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:34PM (#23318513)
> The thing is when you remove the ugly side of those business what remains can be done better for free using p2p networks or federation over open protocols.

Then why hasn't it happened?

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @01:29AM (#23319644)
Because the ugly side of those businesses remains.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by adrianN on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:27AM (#23319398)
If you don't count "influencers" as ads.
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