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I wish they had a free tier with ads.

• sillysaurus3 12y ago
  I'd stop using it instantly. EDIT: Wow. Apparently a bunch of other people would, too. A pizza costs, what, $18? Pinboard is $11/year.
  • mahouse 12y ago
    There's a huge psychological barrier when buying things like this one. Even if it costed $0.99. (Think about apps.)
    • sillysaurus3 12y ago
      While that's true, advertising isn't valuable unless the advertisers know something about you. And subjecting my personal bookmarks to data analysis isn't a line I'd be willing to cross. Once you use it for a few years, your thousands of bookmarks reveal quite a lot about you.
      • johnpowell 12y ago
        Back when I was using Del.ic.ous a lot I was in college and really bored I stalked a few people on Del.ic.ous just to see what data I could gather. The first person that followed me I decided to look into. They posted a link to their grandmothers obituary and from there I was able to get their real name and where they were from.. And pretty much knowing everything about their location to where they applied for jobs was easy.
    • acqq 12y ago
      You're not the potential client then, everything is OK. He can run his business how he likes it, and that includes his decision not to target the maximum possible number of free users.
      • mahouse 12y ago
        You are right, I'm not the potential client but damn I would like to use this. I'm lucky only a minimal part of all web services use this pricing system.
        • acqq 12y ago
          > There's a huge psychological barrier when buying things like this one. Even if it costed $0.99. > damn I would like to use this. It seems then the barrier isn't actually psychological? Do you live in the country which makes the electronic payments impossible? Is it really expensive for you to pay for some service you like only once?
  • accolade 12y ago
    I wish you'd stop using it now. And Hacker News too.