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Re:Time to rebuild the web? by realpeopleio on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:36AM (#16848484)
At first maybe for most people they won't want to pay the cost. What (hopefully) will happen is that smaller sites who have problems keeping bots and fake accounts at bay will decide it's worth it to them to require all their users to use RealPerson. And then (hopefully) over time users face no additional cost using RealPerson on other sites because they already have an account.

Incidentally, this is how RealPeople.io (https://realpeople.io) is able to have no ads because the revenue from RealPerson.io subsidizes it since they're owned by the same company.

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Re:Time to rebuild the web? by corobo on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:40AM (#16848505)
The way you're addressing this site is confusing, you're talking as if your username isn't "realpeopleio" - are you affiliated with the site or just registered under a confusing username?

I apologise for asking this rather than any actual followup questions but it's got me proper distracted

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Re:Time to rebuild the web? by realpeopleio on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:44AM (#16848529)
Yes I am affiliated. I'm arguing why we built RealPeople.io and RealPerson.io to solve the problems listed in the article. I don't think I've tried to hide that.
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