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| ▲ | Ukv 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I feel that's only really true in the way it is of a JS bitcoin miner. Locally appears to make something free (if ignoring time/energy) that wasn't before, but is overall a detriment to average affordability because it's a net loss of resources (mostly just a zero-sum game, with some small side benefits). |
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| ▲ | Dilettante_ a day ago | parent [-] | | I don't disagree with that at all, and by 'free' I suppose I didn't even mean 'as in free beer', I just meant there was no financial transaction taking place. Maybe at some point we're really gonna see an upfront-micropayment structure as some people have mused about. |
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| ▲ | bcye a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| From another noyb article: personalized ads account for < 10% of revenue for newspapers |
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| ▲ | watwut 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "Free" services that are unable to pay for themselves distort the market. And eventually they price out honest and non tracking competition. |
