Reddit says it's made $203M so far licensing its data - eviltoast
  • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Well there’s apparently more than 400 million active users every month, so they could charge users a few cent per month and pay for the infrastructure entirely. But they choose to be massive privacy invading assholes.

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      9 months ago

      If they charged users any amount of money there wouldn’t even be 400000 of them anymore.

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        9 months ago

        Yes there’d be less, but the amount is purely speculative and you don’t know anymore than I do.

        Even if they have to go with the ad-supported model to maintain a large active userbase, that can easily be done without all the tracking. But again, they chose the shittiest option…there’s really a pattern of them just being massive assholes. No matter what options they have, they’ll apparently go for the shittiest one that screws over the users the most.