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    @i_monk
    Sorry bro, but I got to call you out on some of your comments about the web never having ads before and it'll just go back to that.

    Not sure you are old enough to have used the early web @1200-2400 baud speed, but banner ads have been around since 1994.

    Also, much of the web is a business now. The goal of a business is to make money, one way or another. This is not the early days where people simply fronted costs of a good size site just because it was cool to share and be online. You also didn't incur the brunt of tens or hundreds of thousands or even millions of users back then either.

    In 1994 content sucked. It's nothing like today. If you remember it, you wouldn't want it back the way it was.

    One way or another, businesses need to pay for staff, hosting, bandwidth, hardware and leases. It will come from the user one way or another.

    Can you show me an example of a larger, high-quality content site that doesn't use ads, sponsorships, or subscriptions to keep the lights on?

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    • The only companies that do are those who offer products/services beyond the site itself (anything in retail, basically).monospaced
    • And we really don't want them controlling the content further.ETM
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