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▲ anovikov 6 hours ago

The free internet of the workers and peasants? I mean, how will the websites make money?

▲wao0uuno 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why do they have to make money?

▲colesantiago 4 hours ago | parent [-]

So that the website... stays online?

Have you bought a domain before or anything online before?

▲dotancohen an hour ago | parent | next [-]

My personal website has been up for over two and a half decades. I've paid for hosting and for the domain name. Never had an ad on the site.

▲colesantiago 17 minutes ago | parent [-]

So do you expect everyone else to not earn an income from their website if they so choose?

> Never had an ad on the site.

You know there are other ways of people making money without doing ads right?

▲wao0uuno 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, I hosted a website for about two years. Paid for it from my own pocket. Had some fun, learned a few things.

There is this disgusting belief in modern society that everything one does needs to generate money, otherwise it's not worth doing. Were we always like this?

▲colesantiago 3 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yes.

This predates websites, it's called commerce.

Pick any medium, humans will always find a way to transact with one another, it's been like this for thousands of years.

I don't understand why you think websites and the internet should be exempt from this?

> > There is this disgusting belief in modern society that everything one does needs to generate money, otherwise it's not worth doing. Were we always like this?

Forget websites.

How are you going to pay the rent, or put food on the table for your children if you don't want to generate money?

Unless you're retired with savings (some on HN are), have an inheritance windfall or are living on government money, then you can do things that don't need an income.

Otherwise you need to generate an income.

▲jmorenoamor 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's their problem to solve

▲GuinansEyebrows 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

maybe we're better off without websites that only exist to make money.

▲colesantiago 4 hours ago | parent [-]

How do website owners pay for server costs if you think they shouldn't make money?

Should everyone be in a loss when they run a website?

▲qu4z-2 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think if everyone with a website made a small financial loss on it, the web would be immeasurably better.

▲GuinansEyebrows 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

i manage to do so using money i make elsewhere. the information i put on the internet is either of benefit to people or a matter of vanity. i don't afford special concern to people who want to use the internet for profit.