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0 pointskarma_pharmer1y ago0 comments

ads eat everything else

Well duh. Because it's the only value you're allowed to collect from retail customers without having to deal with either chargebacks or kyc.

We've deliberately made every other form of micropayment infeasible. It shouldn't be surprising that the only one left is insanely popular.

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Partly. But also because it's just a way to make more money. If you make X from payments, and you can make Y from ads, then X+Y > X.

You might lose some people, but probably not many - we've been conditioned to really accept ads everywhere.

Also because Y>>X.

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0 pointskarma_pharmer1y ago0 comments

ads eat everything else

Well duh. Because it's the only value you're allowed to collect from retail customers without having to deal with either chargebacks or kyc.

We've deliberately made every other form of micropayment infeasible. It shouldn't be surprising that the only one left is insanely popular.

Partly. But also because it's just a way to make more money. If you make X from payments, and you can make Y from ads, then X+Y > X.

You might lose some people, but probably not many - we've been conditioned to really accept ads everywhere.

Also because Y>>X.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse