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by pexabit 1327 days ago
Ads were much more relevant in a time when micropayments were much less feasible than they are today. There isn't any good reason Facebook can't charge $40/year if they commit to making it good again (e.g. rolling back to 2011 or so) and hosting only the highest paid ads (e.g. Superbowl level production values).
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> There isn't any good reason Facebook can't charge $40/year

I mean you can say it's not a good reason but uhh FB makes about $40 billion in a quarter so even imagining a world where somehow 1 billion users pay that, they wouldn't, it would have to be $160/yr.