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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by themacguffinman on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @01:35AM (#23319676)
And the way they make money is by someone paying for it. Some sites collect payments from users directly. Facebook collects payments from advertisers because most users wouldn't use Facebook if they had to pay for it.

Do you have a point? This reads like an unfinished thought.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by throwaway2048 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:25AM (#23319962)
there is absolutely no reason that they cant do both at the same time, there is a mental short circuit going on when people think paying for a website means no ads. Its never meant that in pretty much any other media.
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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by themacguffinman on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:46PM (#23327944)
Yes there is a reason, users often don't expect to pay for services that show ads, and users who pay for services often don't expect to see ads. That's why most popular online services don't mix the two, eg. Facebook, Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, Crunchyroll, Google, etc.

"mental short circuit" better describes your argument that jumps from "it's possible to both show ads and charge user fees" to "they always will".

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