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That too, but I was referring to the sites in the search themselves. They are not independents but in the pay of someone else if they're not generating revenue.
by p3rls 2y ago
That too, but I was referring to the sites in the search themselves. They are not independents but in the pay of someone else if they're not generating revenue.
As someone with a commercial digital garden with ads (and a $3/mo sub for the ad-adverse) I like to point out the tension in that whenever possible
- Sophira 2y agoNot necessarily. As a counterpoint, I have a site (<https://www.automidiflip.com/ https://www.automidiflip.com/>, which I posted to HN on launch 8 years ago[0], which provides a service and does not have (and has never had) any ads whatsoever. (It inserts a reference to automidiflip.com in the MIDIs it creates as a credit, but no ads in the sense that most people mean.) Granted, it's a niche service, but over the past year it's still been used to flip MIDIs about 23 times a day on average, so it's definitely not unknown. I don't see any need to monetise it, though. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13553224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13553224