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How do you propose free services maintain themselves?

• marssaxman 9y ago
  Collective volunteer labor worked fine before ads came along. Content was better, too.
  • chii 9y ago
    > volunteer this does not last, and is unlikely to scale beyond a certain point. Look how much trouble wikipedia is having with finances - so much so that they are spamming pages with donation pleas. I'm not saying that advertising is inevitable, but when value extraction from the consumer is low (such as a shitty site that people won't pay for, but will consume if free), advertising is the only viable way. If the argument is that such sites don't deserve to exist, then the arguments from both sides are just arguing different world views, and will not ever be resolved.