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Some sites at least detect scraping and make it a little harder, but if people are doing it, must have some effect and more than to just the end-user down the l
by tim44 6y ago
Some sites at least detect scraping and make it a little harder, but if people are doing it, must have some effect and more than to just the end-user down the line. If you are just completely bypassing a site to read text on your phone in an unrelated app, how do you expect that service to survive?
- parliament32 6y agoYou realize CL doesn't have ads in the first place right? It makes no difference to them, revenue-wise, whether I read their content in a web browser or in an RSS feed -- if anything, I'm saving them bandwidth. They make money by charging for making posts in certain categories in certain locations.
- tim44 6y agoTraditional ads aren't the only form of revenue. All I'm saying is that by bypassing the site completely people maybe aren't helping them survive, which could just be what the market decides and we need a craigslist full of ads, wikipedia too. https://www.craigslist.org/about/help/paid_posting_accounts https://www.craigslist.org/about/help/paid_posting_accounts