What if they say it's $20 a month? And it's just facebook. Google also asks for $20, Reddit too, etc.
It won't be cheap.
It won't be cheap.
$20 is cheap.
Seriously though, behemoths do fall and if facebook ceases to exist there will be no harm but good in my book.
Various companies will probably still gather and sell data for even more nefarious purposes, like manipulating elections, but that’s a different battle.
Facebook will yield more than $100 per active user in the US and Canada for fiscal 2018. That's going to $200 from here over the next six or seven years (it doubled from 2015 to 2017). No meaningful number of users are paying $15 per month out of pocket for Facebook.
Google search is similarly worth a lot per user in the US. People would be irate if they had to pay $10 or $20 per month to use search engines after commonly enjoying the free utility of that for the last two decades.
I also think it's conceivable in a more equitable arrangement with paid subscriptions that you could easily have a sizable number of paying users not being active in a given month.
If you divide revenue by users you get between $1-$2 USD. I need to know how NA are 50-100 times that.
https://investor.fb.com/financials/default.aspx
Note that it is reported quarterly (I had some numbers but took them out when I realized I was using 1 quarter instead of the year).
The result: 973 of those sites disappear. Diversity of choice just collapsed. Starting a new recipe site or blog just got 100x more difficult. But hey, in Communist Internet, who needs lots of recipe sites.
I guess you mean the kind where either there are users providing those for free or it uses a huge number of compiled one, not some person inventing new ones.
I would wager that 970 of those sites can be run for virtually no cost, either maintained by loyal community or the wide internet.
Furthermore, I agree the sibling commenter in that these sorts of websites usually just publish what community submits anyways, so we can have a bunch of wikis instead.
P.S.: Everybody should know the difference between trying to overcome the status quo which is selling yourself to companies and hoping that they do not abuse you, and things like communism or government overreach. And if businesses will lose money or get closed if they stop bad, malevolent practices of theirs, good riddance. Let the sanity get the better of them.