California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers

Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by nolist_policy on Saturday March 22, 2025 @03:44PM (#43448100)

Google makes about $3 per user per month in ad revenue[0]. With VAT and transfer costs that makes a equivalent subscription maybe $5 per month?

(Too much for my taste.)

Then you have to factor in that (far) fewer users are going to use/pay for their products if it's a subscription.

It's a though calculation for sure.

[0] https://thenextweb.com/news/heres-how-much-money-you-made-go...

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Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by sroussey on Saturday March 22, 2025 @05:02PM (#43448607)

That’s what Kagi charges:

https://kagi.com/pricing?plan=individual

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Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by no_wizard on Saturday March 22, 2025 @05:40PM (#43448858)

For 300 searches a month.

Google is making it based on theoretically unlimited searches for everyone. No caps in the number of searches.

You have to to the $10 USD a month tier with Kagi to have the same expectation met, which is unlimited searches

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Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by AlexandrB on Saturday March 22, 2025 @10:11PM (#43450409)

This assumes that privacy-preserving advertising would make Google $0. I doubt this is the case, especially if every other company is also using a similar business model. For purely placement advertising, Google still has more reach than any newspaper or magazine ever produced in the pre-internet era.

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