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harmonic18374 4 hours ago

It's tempting to look at trends and assume there must be a rule behind them, but it's also intellectually lazy. Please do the hard work of justifying your stance like GGP did.

bdangubic 4 hours ago | parent [-]

it is a simple stance - if you have a product that is used by hundreds of millions of people ad monetization strategy will be found cause there are people a lot smarter than you and me that will get it done. here’s intellectual challenge - find a business with comparable number of users to openai which is not swimming in ad revenue - one will do

flextheruler 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A counterpoint is that there are many products with significant usage that fail or never attempt advertising monetization. They just increase the cost of the product.

harmonic18374 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Snapchat

bdangubic an hour ago | parent [-]

Total Quarterly Revenue (Q4 2024): $1.55 billion in total revenue, with $1.41 billion coming from advertising

Basically all their revenue is ad revenue and not too bad