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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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