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I don't think giving users a percentage of ad revenue is a feasible business model. How/why would that work?


Shrug I thought I made the case already.

If Google makes X on untargeted ads and X+Y on targeted ads then it comes out ahead by offering Y/10 of that money to the user somehow.

Yeah it's peanuts so you make it Google Play credit. For some people maybe it's only one song a month, for others it might be one movie a quarter.


Or Google could make a deal with Facebook: If Google makes X without Facebook's data and X+Y with their data, they can offer Facebook Y/3.


But Facebook is gunning for that X+Y. There are only 12 billion * 24 eyeball hours in each day.




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