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Would you rather have every website prompt you with a paywall instead because that is the only other profitable solution I can think of.
by mrep 8y ago
Would you rather have every website prompt you with a paywall instead because that is the only other profitable solution I can think of.
- ebg13 8y agoYou are either ignoring the context of this subthread or agreeing with it. I'll remind you: ashishmalik says "Everything is ok because money!"
- objectivetruth 8y agoYou are seemingly ignoring parent's point that the adtech model funding our free web services is one of only two seemingly-possible models, and they both involve money. I guess a utopian 100% decentralized mesh network with easy-to-home-build commodity OTS hardware and 100% open well-defined protocols is theoretically possible but that's not how the cards played out. Nothing is black and white, most people recognize nuance, and for most people the net balance of the trade-offs in the current 'free online services subsidized by adtech' model is good enough.