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i can't imagine he'll make money on cheap Indian users when he needs a server with terabytes of RAM to serve them but you never know.

i might get blowback for this but I had an Instagram paid service where Indian users were blowing up the free trials and never paying so I just blocked all Indian IPs. more trouble than they're worth

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This is why advertising works as a good source of revenue.

And what happens when advertisers realize that they, too, are obviously not going to sell anything to these users ? I mean, isn't this exploiting the market ? (perhaps for a "good" cause but that's a matter of opinion)

These people buy a lot of stuff online, usually through 'cash on delivery'.

Yes. The distance between 1$ and 0$ is waaay bigger than 1$.

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