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I wish Facebook would offer an option to pay to remove ads / reduce tracking. I understand that they have to operate a business, and if I don't want to pay they should be able to show me ads. If I do want to pay it would be nice to be able to remove the tracking/ads. It looks like facebook only pulls in about $10 per user[1], I'd happily pay a few dollars a month for an ad free service

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-average-revenue-per-...

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An argument against that I have seen in other threads and I find particularly interesting is that by providing an option to pay to block ads, you'd be greatly diminishing the strength of the ad network since the people that would see ads are not the ones that are willing to pay for their stuff.

That makes a ton of sense, I was being blinded by the average revenue not thinking about that fact that their revenue probably has an 80/20 distribution. I wonder if you assumed that there was a pareto distribution of their users what you'd need to do to compute how much the top 10/20% are spending per year (I'm kind of stumped on that one).

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