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love your username. Now, to what degree do you also agree that it is ethically impermissible to use advertising to "monetize" traffic that you garner by telling
by eevilspock 12y ago
love your username. Now, to what degree do you also agree that it is ethically impermissible to use advertising to "monetize" traffic that you garner by telling people it's free? Is it really free? Is it really honest? What do you think about my take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773 ?
I typically include this quote when I critique the use of advertising on HN since a lot of people here live off of advertising:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair