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Are you trying to suggest that for a website like facebook, it costs them more money to serve a few dumb HTTP requests, than they can make from adverts? That w
by axod 17y ago
Are you trying to suggest that for a website like facebook, it costs them more money to serve a few dumb HTTP requests, than they can make from adverts?
That would be quite an achievement.
>> "I like Facebook well enough, but unlike my early interaction with Amazon I have never made a payment to Facebook for anything."
Many advertisers have.
- apsurd 17y agoAs a defendant of facebook, surely you can't say all they are doing is serving dumb http requests? Their army of world-class engineers would beg to differ no? And they must cost quite a penny to support?
- axod 17y agoThat's through their own choice, and something they can "switch off" whenever they feel like it. It's called investment and building.