Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data

Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by neilparikh on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:43PM (#23606351)

$17 is the global average. If you live in a country like the US, you probably generate way more revenue per year, since you have more spending power (and thus are more valuable to advertise to).

I think the general problem is that those who can afford to pay for Facebook are those who are the most valuable to advertisers. So if you gave users the choice to pay or not, the users who draw the advertising revenue would pay, leaving the users who the advertisers don't really want to advertise to.

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Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by adventured on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:26PM (#23608165)

For reference it's approximately $143 per year for the US market, per user ($11.92 per month).

~220-230 million monthly active US users, $31.4 billion in sales (projected 2020 figure) for that market.

That's of course not adjusting for hours of use for a given user, data contribution, and so on.

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Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by jlbnjmn on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:57PM (#23617676)

Do you know the numbers for daily active users or weekly active users?

And do those numbers include messenger?

It would be fascinating to see some histograms of users and usage. Especially one that compares ad buyers, page managers, and personal only users.

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