Comment by monocasa
2 months ago
Google's $60m/yr is the only thing keeping them profitable.
Mozilla's business model isn't really something to emulate, even if the stock market doesn't really see it that way.
2 months ago
Google's $60m/yr is the only thing keeping them profitable.
Mozilla's business model isn't really something to emulate, even if the stock market doesn't really see it that way.
Not really. Lots of companies have valuable data they sell and have been in business for decades just fine. It's even better for reddit because it's user generated so they don't even have to do anything. The users who left during the API debacle are not the vast majority of users which are generally casual and do not give a single shit about what happened, much as tech people like to think otherwise.
The causal users (to say nothing of the the massive uptick in bot traffic) are some of the more useless data from an AI training perspective.
Again, this is a techie take. Lots of people for example use ChatGPT for personal therapy and guess which subs their training data comes from, r/relationships etc. Those trying to use them for other means are comparatively less frequent.
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