Jeff Hammerbacher: ‘The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads… That sucks.’
Those best minds are now having to change the way they generate revenue..
Of course, they’d hate the idea of having a fixed revenue per user. They want to keep sucking out more revenue per user until the well runs dry.
Ergo, Facebook will charge a different rate per nation; per state; ideally per user (they already have all the data they need to calculate exact revenue per user based on their data).
There is an incessant amount of whining about GDPR for example, and how "confusing" the regulations supposedly are. What it comes down to is many HN denizens are doing things that are explicitly prohibited by these data collection laws and want to continue doing the things that have been outlawed.
As they say, it is difficult to get a man understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Good luck!