Mark Zuckerberg, Let Me Pay for Facebook (2015)

After reading the rumor that Twitter is going to provide a subscription option I googled this very phrase and found this opinion article, which is as relevant as it was 5y ago.

I hope that the anti tracking movement will give me an option to pay for the "free" services which I use.

I wish Google would do the same thing. Google provides such absurd value; its a shame that they have to fund it with advertising. Google makes maybe $7 per person per month [1] (If anyone has more accurate numbers, please tell me!). I would totally pay $7 a month for Google without the ads/tracking, hell I would pay $15 if it included YouTube too.

If they offered this, I would buy an android phone and personally use Google everything, as long as they ensure that they aren't tracking me.

I feel like they can’t afford to offer tiered accounts.

For these modes of appraising the worth of individuals for advertising, aren’t the most valuable targets ones who would pay to avoid it? As in, people too stingy to pay are unreliable consumers —- but that’s the only tier advertisers could reach.