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Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:39AM (#16847548)
I think it is important to realize that you are actually paying for the service, and that that is actually the right way to pay for it: You pay for the infrastructure of the internet by paying your ISP, and for the processing and storage of your own hardware by buying it. That is the service that someone actually has to operate for us, and it is a product everyone does already buy.
Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High by carapace on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:16AM (#16849125)
Yes, distributed infrastructure, including mesh networking in a hypothetical ideal world.

The actual cost of what e.g. FB does for its users is tiny.