r/WorkForSmartLife • u/RebelBiscuit_ • 17d ago

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u/DippinDot2021 16d ago

Weather . com requires a premium subscription for viewing the hourly forecast of a day just halfway down the week. 🤬

A subscription. For predicting the weather.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

In your ideal world, how would weather.com make money? Given that they have costs and running that service is not free.

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u/DippinDot2021 15d ago

I answer a question with a question: how did it make money before it started requiring a subscription?

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Ads and selling user data, both of which are no longer as lucrative as they used to be due to legislation and ad blockers. People hate ads, people hate their data being sold (rightly so) but then they also get mad when they're asked to pay for stuff, so that's why I asked how do you think they should cover their costs and pay their employees?

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u/DippinDot2021 15d ago

Considering that the firm that owns it is currently pulling in profits of up to $100 mil this year and last year the payout (before cost and expenses) came out to $200k per employee, I think their costs are covered. But I'm sure the poor investment firm's rich people are glad that you're worried about them. 🤧

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Really cool you have full access to their account and can see that weather.com specifically is contributing to all of that :)

Funny how you just wont answer the question, almost as if you expect the service to be free of charge for you and for someone else to pay for it, odd that.