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Re:NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendati... by thfuran on Friday October 03, 2025 @06:00PM (#45468305)
If they're not making money from ads, they don't have incentive to manipulate you into spending as much time as possible watching ads. Maybe if it's some kind of micropayment based model, but if it's subscription the profit motive would be to get you to use the service as little as possible without unsubscribing.
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Re:NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendati... by mgraczyk on Friday October 03, 2025 @06:19PM (#45468489)
That's completely wrong, and nobody who has ever worked on a subscription business would believe that.

Talk to somebody who works at Netflix or Spotify

The reason is that retention is much, much more important than reducing usage cost for almost every business

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