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In article bje@ripco.com says...
> For months I was getting email from Google about putting an ad on it, 
I
> don't know what they paid because I didn't like the idea, but they were
> relentless with the request. Must of got like 2 or 3 emails a week
> suggesting it.
> 
> I'm guessing whoever is paying them to advertise on there is on some kind of
> package, like the ad runs on videos that get 10,000+ a day, 1000+ a day and
> so forth. The more views, the more they pay.

AFAIK, if you didn't own the copyright to the broadcast then Google 
could place ads on videos without the uploader's consent in lieu of a 
DMCA takedown request.  I'm surprised Google even negotiated with you.

> I'd guess the Facebook is the same thing, the more accounts that have 
a high
> count of "likes" on them cost more to place an ad. Not sure what good it
> does the account holder, but maybe there is some kickback scheme like
> YouTube has.

I don't understand any of this Facebook exosphere.  I once spent 15 
minutes on there using a fake account and was more than bored to tears, 
it kind of creeped me out.  I wouldn't want my friends from 10 years ago 
to know my friends from 5 years ago or any of my friends to see who is 
in my family and all the BS of friending and unfriending and posts and 
walls.  I once had a myspace account when it first came out because of a 
woman and I accepted no other friends nor tell anyone about that account  
but her.  I kept getting friend requests from strippers/hookers in 
Texas.  Once a person I knew in real life somehow found me and tried to 
friend me I canceled the account and GTFOH.

I do notice that my mail spam is way down from previous years.  I 
suspect all the scammers and spammers flocked to Facebook -- which IMHO 
is a good thing.