I already have an ad-free Facebook, and I don't have to pay for it.
In the days of Adblock Plus, it's silly to have a subscriber version that ONLY removes the ads. There must be some other value-added feature.
Chris Kennedy
· 1 year ago
In terms of pure sampling error, the margin of error for that poll at 250 people is +/- 2.7%, and +/- 1.4% if 1,000 people were sampled. What would be more interesting is to see the demographic breakdowns so that they could understand which users were more likely to pay.
Joe Grossberg
· 1 year ago
Nick:
Whatever ... $50/year from 4% of Facebook users is still a lot of revenue -- $100M a year and growing rapidly, if you accept the 50M member estimate.
And that's on top of any ad revenue.
Dan:
I love ABP, but it only works if there is a pattern to the ad filenames. If FB is smart, and cares about the tiny number of people who use FF and ABP, they'll put all their advertising images in http://static.ak.facebook.com/images/ and use random filenames.
Chi-chi Ekweozor
· 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this, Nick.
I wrote an open letter to Facebook here about this on Saturday:
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In the days of Adblock Plus, it's silly to have a subscriber version that ONLY removes the ads. There must be some other value-added feature.
Whatever ... $50/year from 4% of Facebook users is still a lot of revenue -- $100M a year and growing rapidly, if you accept the 50M member estimate.
And that's on top of any ad revenue.
Dan:
I love ABP, but it only works if there is a pattern to the ad filenames. If FB is smart, and cares about the tiny number of people who use FF and ABP, they'll put all their advertising images in http://static.ak.facebook.com/images/ and use random filenames.
I wrote an open letter to Facebook here about this on Saturday:
http://tinyurl.com/yvxurx
Cool to see it's someone’s asking the question, at least.
@Joe Grossberg:
Agreed, 4% may not be much but it's still a guaranteed revenue stream...
@Chris Kennedy:
I agree, I don't think the sample is representative.
I'm willing to bet I'm not in the demographic covered by that poll, not being a student and all that.
Perhaps the poll should be re-run and targeted towards the ‘Facebook-is-the-new-Linked-In’ crowd.
Would be interesting to see what busy, middle manager types think of receiving and inadvertently sending social ads.