Ask HN: How Much Would You Pay for Google to be Ad Free?

$0, maybe less.

Google ads provide enough value for me on some searches that I would actively seek them out.

I think I am extravagating to say I would actually pay for the ads, but I'd choose them over a free service without ads.

$0, but it's not likely to happen anyway...

Selling an ad-free version of their services would undermine the value of the audience presented to their advertisers.

It would also be tantamount to admitting that their ads are annoying, if even in a minor way, and this would contradict their efforts to deliver relevant ads unobtrusively.

$0. Ads don't bother me.

I actually prefer the ads in certain instances. If a company is willing to pay per click, they probably have an offer that is compelling to me.

$0 (=Rs.0 ... I'm from India). I use FFx+ Adblock all the time, and Ctrl+Shift+P (Private Mode) when I need the added protection of invisibility (as well as Torbutton to use Tor for a 3rd layer of safety.)

Google, by it's past record, is a company I can trust (ofcourse only to a certain extent) with my data.

Facebook on the other hand...

EDIT:

Related: Would Twitter be better if your paid for it? : http://gigaom.com/2012/07/22/free-vs-paid-would-twitter-be-b...

A site http://www.reputation.com [1] apparently says you're worth up to $5000 per year. If it's true, people underestimate the value of their information greatly.

[1] http://blogs.smartmoney.com/advice/2012/01/25/who-would-pay-...

Shouldn't the REAL question be: How much are you willing to pay in order to be deleted from all of Google's databases (and start with a clean slate)? (Your personal search-history, what sites you visited, your e-mail, contents of your Google docs, your personal wifi and passwords that were scanned by the Google maps cars, your entire profile...) How much would that be worth?

All ads and all tracking on the net? I'd do between $100 and $200 per year for sure.

The more hypothetical, but interesting question: if you had to pay for it to use it, how much would you spend? Assuming no free bing substitute, I'd gladly shell out $1000/year.

Doesn't matter; you can't pay enough. If Google went ad-free, it would be out of business within months. The Internet would regress by a number of years. This collateral damage is, quite frankly, beyond out combined bankrolls.

$0, google ads do not bother me really (whether relevant or irrelevant).

What if it was based on how much you used it? If you only use gmail it would be $x but if you used gmail + docs it would be $x + $y?

Or maybe $x per 1000 searches.... I dunno

Chrome with:Do Not Track Plus + AdBlock Plus

$0. I think the real question is how much money to keep your information anonymous.

Personally I have no incentive to pay since ABP removes them already...

I'm perfectly fine with the ads... So zero dollars for me too

per month, per year, per lifetime? Depends on how the data is stored. If privacy mechanisms are high and a client sided encryption option available maybe $10/m.

$0

> $300

< $100

$0. I like the ads.

Maybe $100/year.

$0

$100 per year.

$201 - $300

$100 - $200

~$300/year

join.search.net

$0/yr

$100