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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by sevg on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:30AM (#38554175)
> Half of their customers

I have no side to take in this discussion, but just wanted to point out that the USA is not the only country that exists. I know it sometimes seems that way on Hacker News, but I promise you that there is a big wide world out there that has nothing to do with the Supreme Court :)

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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by dewey on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:32AM (#38554186)
The topic is about a large US tech company though.
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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by sevg on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:36AM (#38554211)
The USA makes up only about 8-10% (250M) of total Facebook users (3B) based on a quick search I just did.

They're not even the largest user base by country, which is apparently India.

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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by aembleton on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:53AM (#38554324)
But they are the most valuable cohort in terms of revenue https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...
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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by EZ-E on Thursday December 07, 2023 @05:01AM (#38554708)
How the hell does Facebook generate 56$ of revenue per US user per quarter? Are selling ads and selling personal information really that lucrative?
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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by filleokus on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:54AM (#38554344)
What is the share of revenue from US? I would guess it's not thaaat far from 50%. The median income in the US is like 20x of India, so presumably ad views from the US ought to be quite a lot more valuable. I would guess EU + US is the vast majority of revenue.
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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by bagels on Thursday December 07, 2023 @04:08AM (#38554424)
It's published, but last I recall us users are worth revenue about 4x per user in Europe and >10x users from Asia
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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by znpy on Thursday December 07, 2023 @04:24AM (#38554508)
are you talking about individual users or the whole aggregate?

because if the former, then users from asia likely are largely outnumbering users from the USA

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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by michpoch on Thursday December 07, 2023 @04:05AM (#38554405)
That doesn't matter if we're talking about % of users that could be affected by some local-US law.
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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by dc3k on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:34AM (#38554201)
The post they're replying to says "half of their customers", which implies 100% of their customers are in America, which is obviously completely wrong.
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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by xigoi on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:19AM (#38556574)
It also seems to assume that all women in the USA have had an abortion???
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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by hengistbury on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:41AM (#38554237)
Facebook might be a US tech company, but the US isn't their largest user base, that crown currently goes to India according to Statista: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-...
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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by dewey on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:45AM (#38554266)
The number of users matters much less for FB. The amount of users which can be monetized matters much more and the CPC for US users is always much higher than other countries.
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Re:Building end-to-end security for Messenger – Engineering ... by rakoo on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:51AM (#38554313)
At this point, with the impact they have on the global stage and the fact that they will only pay their taxes where they want, it's a but irrelevant to keep this frame of thoughts.
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