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bdangubicyesterday at 5:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

These exact words were said tens of thousands of times about Facebook (am old enough to remember those discussions :) ), “no way they can monetize on mobile” (this was the most fun).

rules are simple, if you have Xbn or XXXm users on your system, you will make big bank in ads eventually


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harmonic18374yesterday at 5:27 PM

It's tempting to look at trends and assume there must be a rule behind them, but it's also intellectually lazy. Please do the hard work of justifying your stance like GGP did.

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iAMkenoughyesterday at 5:27 PM

At that time, Facebook provided a free service without any real competitors. The masses will switch to Meta AI or Gemini or Claude at the drop of an ad that annoys them enough.

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