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But will it actually be ad-free, or just personalized ad-free?
Because if it’s actually ad-free, you might find a decent number of people willing to pay it. (Especially those without the technical know-how to block ads, a small fee is probably worth it to them.)
If it’s just personalized ad-free, and still has generic ads, you’ll have basically nobody who gives enough of a shit to pay.
as soon as possible the ad free version becomes ad light
I think this is showing both how much your data is worth, and what it costs to actually run / use these services. People don’t want to pay, but I’ve always thought pay for a service was a potentially much less shitty business model. However, instead what we often get now is both pay for a service and still privacy invasion / selling our data. And who’s going to trust Facebook here?
yeah same with YouTube plus: if you pay, they can sell your data at a premium, because you’re in the group that can be made to pay
Except not at all. This isn’t what it costs them or what your data (targeted ad views) are worth. This is what the hope a few suckers will pay them (and to get you used to the idea of extremely expensive premium services), and otherwise at least 3 (but probably more) orders of magnitude more than they’d make if you watched the ads.
All these subscriptions have the same problem: they’re incredibly pricey, offer almost nothing in return (they usually still track you), and if you had to pay them all you’d have like at least a $2k hole in your budget just for subscriptions.
It just doesn’t make sense.
I can see a lot of people being willing to pay for this, but $14 a month is shockingly high.
Even if it was free and ad-free I wouldn’t want it.
Lolol.
They’re really planning on monetizing everything. I’m curious to see how many actually pay for this.
Isn’t it the other way around? They’ve been told they can’t monetise people’s personal data without consent so they’re preparing an option to basically tell users how unappetising the paid option is, to ensure people allow their personal data to be monetised.
