Question: if we can get FB, Twitter for free for putting up with ads, why not everything? Where precisely does the logic fail? Or does it?
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There's no point advertising things to people who buy nothing (right?), but not clear where transition from economic engine to ponzi starts
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They've never been free. We've just been punting the costs toward the privacy equivalent of social security/global warming.
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I am not sure the analogy holds. Our behaviors show we care less and less about privacy. Except for financial identity stuff.
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maybe on FB/TWTR, network effects compensate for ad noise toll, since many more people will use ad-supported vs subscription-based FB
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but on services w/o network effects, putting in ads is all downside from UX perspective, so ad-supported versions are inferior goods



