Comment by fontain
1 day ago
Unfortunately, Meta’s ad business is so effective that they would need to charge hundreds of dollars per year for an ad free service just to keep revenue stable. I suspect anything less than $25 per month would be loss making for them.
The last numbers I saw are almost 10 years old now, and then it was $65 per year in profit for a Facebook user, in the US, a little less for someone in the EU and almost nothing in most other places.
Are there new numbers that one can access? I can imagine the value has gone up, but hundreds of dollars seem like a lot.
They do offer a €8/month ad-free Instagram subscription in the EU. I'm subscribed, it's pretty cool.
If you used Android you can get this for free or just use it on the web with an adblocker.
And even then, they wouldn't remove ads since they'd want to add to their profits!