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Re:AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To by ACow_Adonis on Sunday August 27, 2017 @05:58AM (#15110035)
Perhaps if you don't want people consuming your content, maybe you shouldn't have put it up on a web server that freely takes and communicates to their requests.

Its like people forget (or just don't care about) history.

The web started off advertising free.

THEN people moved in because they thought they could use the communication medium for a business opportunity.

NOW you're telling people not to consume from the medium that YOU moved in on.

Its a ballsy position :)

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Re:AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To by fooker on Sunday August 27, 2017 @02:31PM (#15111970)
> The web started off advertising free.

The web started off as a very limited network funded by universities and the military. You did not have to pay to host anything for the first several years.

Are you suggesting we return to that?

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