[MisterPea]

Facebook's ARPU in Europe over the trailing 12 months was $69.72 or $5.81 per month.

Considering only the most dedicated users are going to pay for this, Meta is most likely losing money with Ad-Free version

Source: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_earnings/2023/q3/p...

[tristanj]

Nit: they don't actually lose money by offering a subscription, they just make less money than if they didn't offer one.

[pb7]

Same thing.

[cromka]

It would be same thing if their business was losing money, which it isn’t.

[pb7]

The legal concept of "lost wages" is the money you would have earned if you had not missed work. This is no different. There is an opportunity cost to everything.