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It does solve the problems by getting rid of these websites. No ads or tracking means that the site isn't going to be making much money. Contextual ads will onl
by Mirioron 8y ago
It does solve the problems by getting rid of these websites. No ads or tracking means that the site isn't going to be making much money. Contextual ads will only ever work for a small amount of companies, because it takes too much effort for a company to approach hundreds of websites to work out deals about it.
- stubish 8y agoThey are hoping to prove your assumption that money needs to come from ads wrong. While they are offering a free tier for librem.one on what seems to be an honor system, it is supposed to be a subscription service.
- philpem 8y agoThey're getting a lot of flak (and instance mutes) from Mastodon instances at the minute. Librem/puri.sm have gimped their Mastodon fork to entirely disable reporting (both handling incoming reports and sending abuse reports to other instances). Understandably, a lot of the fediverse and especially instance admins are unhappy about this. It wouldn't surprise me if this just turned into yet another walled-garden or echo-chamber, though the question is for whom.