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by mnzaki 3105 days ago
Ad based revenue models are based on selling user data. I think in the p2p world these services would start charging money for the actual service instead. For example, one would pay for access to the world's best search engine that has indexed all there is to index in the public parts of the p2p world; as opposed to accessing it for "free" (in which case the user is actually what is being "sold", to the advertisers)