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Google makes like 50$ per month from you and Facebook makes 30$ per month (or something in this ballpark), things are way beyond what most people are willing to pay.

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30$/user/year seems to be accurate. Facebook reported 86 billion USD for 2020 [1] and 2.89 billion MAU [2]. When computing the ratio, the geek inside me feels particularly satisfied to reduce billion from the numerator and denominator. :)

So 2€/user/month seems priced well.

[1] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...

wait wtf why wont they just charge it then

ffs

i thought its 30 per month and thats why they dont do it, now i am even more upset for all the spying..

oh wait, thats 2.8b mau but most of them are worth nothing, look at west europe and north america, and only subset of them, its like 200 million people that have to pay

    >>> (89000000000/200000000) / 12
    37.083333333333336

Most people would not even pay a cent

i think the problem is that the people that will pay a cent are the people they are making 40$ per month from, and the rest of the MAUs are probably almost worthless

so if they start charging, they will only lose

I wonder how many users are unbanked and can't even pay a cent.

because data has some intangible value not reflected in the quarterly financials.

I wonder how much is enterprise revenue albeit the sites are used as personal services.

> Google makes like 50$ per month from you

On average...

Like many people out there I have never clicked on an ad and I definitely never closed a purchase by following an ad link. I never allowed for tighter integration, I avoid other Google services (Gmail, Maps, Youtube) other than Search itself.

Users like me are a burden on google's servers. On average if I was charged 20$ a month for anonomised technical search services then I am fairly confident that they would be making more money than if I just ad-block everything like I currently do.

> On average if I was charged 20$ a month for anonomised technical search services then I am fairly confident that they would be making more money than if I just ad-block everything like I currently do.

You should check out Gigablast (https://www.gigablast.com/). I came across their site yesterday, as one of a very few search engines who maintain their own index of the internet rather than relying on Google or Bing. It's delightfully antique, and surprisingly good for all but the most arcane searches.

Great sugestion, just tried some obscure Electrical Engineering queries and it looks pretty good. Thanks!

30 cent per user per month, maybe. Not 30 usd

Google Ads cost $~4-8 per lead for our company. Google is raking it in.

How do you then explain Facebook's revenue being 86B in 2020?

Fair point, I stand corrected:-)

The alternative to paying for an ad-free experience is ad-blockers. I very much doubt that they make anywhere near as much from me.

they don’t make nearly as much

Why do you say that? The revenue of Facebook is public (86B in 2020). Is a lot of it not from users, or is the figure incorrect, or do they have many more users than they say they have?

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