$0, google ads do not bother me really (whether relevant or irrelevant).
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#32Doesn't matter; you can't pay enough. If Google went ad-free, it would be out of business within months. The Internet would regress by a number of years. This collateral damage is, quite frankly, beyond out combined bankrolls.
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#33$0 (=Rs.0 ... I'm from India).
I use FFx+ Adblock all the time, and Ctrl+Shift+P (Private Mode) when I need the added protection of invisibility (as well as Torbutton to use Tor for a 3rd layer of safety.)
Google, by it's past record, is a company I can trust (ofcourse only to a certain extent) with my data.
Facebook on the other hand...
EDIT:
Related: Would Twitter be better if your paid for it? : http://gigaom.com/2012/07/22/free-vs-paid-would-twitter-be-b...
Re: Ask HN: How Much Would You Pay for Google to be Ad Free?
#34Shouldn't the REAL question be:
How much are you willing to pay in order to be deleted from all of Google's databases (and start with a clean slate)? (Your personal search-history, what sites you visited, your e-mail, contents of your Google docs, your personal wifi and passwords that were scanned by the Google maps cars, your entire profile...) How much would that be worth?
Re: Ask HN: How Much Would You Pay for Google to be Ad Free?
#35Personally I have no incentive to pay since ABP removes them already...
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#36I'm perfectly fine with the ads... So zero dollars for me too
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#37I actually LIKE the Google ads as they target me so well.
As as member of western civilization, I am highly trained to ignore ads - but with Google, I have learned to overcome that and actually peruse them,,