If only Google offered the option to pay in return for no ads and other junk. But they would say it does not scale; they can't count that low. So people are flocking to chatGPT.
I suspect that by doing so they'd indicate just how much each user is worth to them in ads.
I suspect that folk who opted into this would be the ones getting lots of ads (hence the most valuable.)
If Google said "you can opt out for $99 a month" you'd freak out. But you're probably worth that (or more).
People aren't really flocking to ChatGPT though - not yet. Not at Google Scale. It's not like my mom will pay $20 a month when she just uses Google for free...
Sure some are moving. There are always some moving. But despite the HN bubble effect its a tiny sample.
Plus folk moving now are folk who'll move back later when they get disgruntled there. (No disrespect.) First movers are not the loyal customer base. Movers gotta be moving..
(I say this as a general rule not making an assumption about you personally.)
It's like even everyone "left" Facebook for google+.
My churn would appear as a loss in their lifetime value model, so it would be detected by a long-term experiment. And I am reasonably confident they are performing long-term experiments for such things.
