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So arrogant to monetize your website using your users in such a way. It’s one thing to show me ads, it’s another to use me as a node in a distributed CDN for wh
by azinman2 5y ago
So arrogant to monetize your website using your users in such a way. It’s one thing to show me ads, it’s another to use me as a node in a distributed CDN for which I gain no value, and everyone else does. It’s not even some kind of p2p situation I as a user opt into because I believe in the communal network.
I hate this leechy behavior that has come to plague the internet for a while now. When it was all nerds it was glorious. Then the money came, and the bullies followed.
- samtheprogram 5y agoYou gain the value of whatever service you’re using. It’s the same approach of monetizing a site with ads, except instead of “paying” for the site with your data or eyeballs, you’re paying with your bandwidth. I actually quite like this idea. Any site/app/etc that is free has to make money, at the very least to pay for infrastructure, and I find this a lot less invasive than surveillance, and not “arrogant” at all.
- azinman2 5y agoDo you really this it’s an OR versus and AND? I cannot imagine sites doing this won’t also have ads. This is also not just bandwidth, but also 300mb of storage.
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