> Web users will be charged £2.99 a month and mobile phone users £3.99 a month to scroll through Facebook and Instagram without targeted ...
> Web users will be charged £2.99 a month and mobile phone users £3.99 a month to scroll through Facebook and Instagram without targeted ads. I wonder how much information this provides about the relative value of mobile users vs web users. It's complicated by the fact that part of the pricing strategy here is likely not maximizing revenue as much as it is…making it just too expensive for many people to want to pay, thus shaping public opinion in the right direction. > If the accounts are linked, users only need to pay one monthly fee. Is this because they manage to get some value from that edge existing in the graph even if they can't turn that into ad revenue?
Posted by evertedsphere on Sep 26, 2025, 11:58 AM
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I got tired of the price hikes of the ad free netflix and finally canceled.
>This is pathological.
1) No, but the tracking needed for targeted ads is also behind a consent wall.
The attention economy is real, your eyes have value that is surprisingly high, and buying out that attention so you can have a pure you-c...
> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand That's true, but they care deeply about the consequences of that: > ab...
There's a part of the tech industry that uses what I would call dark influencer techniques.
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You can either have AI be honest or AI become a marketing tool.
> Web users will be charged £2.99 a month and mobile phone users £3.99 a month to scroll through Facebook and Instagram without targeted ...
> Web users will be charged £2.99 a month and mobile phone users £3.99 a month to scroll through Facebook and Instagram without targeted ads. I wonder how much information this provides about the relative value of mobile users vs web users. It's complicated by the fact that part of the pricing strategy here is likely not maximizing revenue as much as it is…making it just too expensive for many people to want to pay, thus shaping public opinion in the right direction. > If the accounts are linked, users only need to pay one monthly fee. Is this because they manage to get some value from that edge existing in the graph even if they can't turn that into ad revenue?
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