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The ad-free bit is no big deal, but their alternative source of revenue (letting people buy popularity) seems diabolically clever.


Diabolially clever? At the moment companies pay to advertise on Facebook et al. With Badoo companies and customers pay for their bands/artists/self to reach the top of a list? This is just a slight alternation of the extant model not an alternative.

Although, yes, as Badoo gives users the ability to do what companies have done for years is new, but it's still advertising, something they claim they've abandoned.




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