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There’s no free lunch, the ads provide you with the ability to see things on the internet for free.
by tinus_hn 5y ago
There’s no free lunch, the ads provide you with the ability to see things on the internet for free.
- marcodiego 5y agoI think FLOSS people ought to disagree with you. Also, this very site has no ads. Neither does wikipedia. Nor librivox, or Project Gutemberg...
- tinus_hn 5y agoMany of these projects are funded by sponsors that couldn’t exist without internet ads.
- pseudalopex 5y agoHN has ads for YC companies.
- fileeditview 5y agoAs I said.. I would prefer to pay for valuable content. Then the rest splits into two categories. Truly free (maybe with donations, or totally free) and a load of crap content I don't need to see anyways.