• Leshoyadut@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It also has the opportinity cost of the viewer not getting first party ads or giving tracking data. Even with these things, though, it’s still nowhere near what they’re charging.

    Also, fuck ads and tracking data.

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      1 year ago

      They also had a revenue and/or profit sharing agreement with one of the bigger Android apps up until a little bit after Huffman took over as CEO. So it’s not like they couldn’t have had a slice of the pie anyways.

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      1 year ago

      As I’ve said before, unrealized capital is not a cost.

      Unless you run a shitty business.