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> It’s kind of weird to charge money for a security service. Instead of me giving $20 (and much more later on) to the malware authors by letting them steal my c
by Rjevski 8y ago
> It’s kind of weird to charge money for a security service. Instead of me giving $20 (and much more later on) to the malware authors by letting them steal my credit card numbers & personal information, I’m paying you $20 to remove the malware and their authors get $0. At least when malware protection is free, nobody makes money. But charging for malware protection is stealing from the malware authors and I’m not sure how I feel about that...
Fixed that for you!
- no1youknowz 8y ago> malware... There's an easy way to fix that. Setup an ethical Ad company that serves ads without malware and responsible advertising. But how to do that on a scalable and profitable manner is something else.
- Rjevski 8y agoEthical ads do exist. Look at Carbon or the (self-hosted) ads on Read The Docs. The issue is those ethical ad networks don’t pay as much as the others because they actually screen their ads and a lot of the garbage ads (that keep the entire advertising industry afloat) wouldn’t make it past review. As a result, rags like the Daily Mail and a lot of other major news sites simply wouldn’t be able to stay afloat (which frankly would not be a big loss - if your business can’t make money legitimately - without bad ads that is - then maybe it’s time to close down or rethink your business model?).