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Re:Why Lichess will always be free by silicon2401 on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:11AM (#26914391)
This is a pretty extreme and entitled position. You're the one assuming that the website will offer you something of interest without any reason to do so, and that you should receive it however you want (without ads). If anything it's more reasonable to assume that you'll see ads on every page you go to.

I take the complete opposite position: if I take the effort to make a website, I'll do what I want with it. Maybe I consider your visit an attack on my bandwidth, and I compensate with ads. If you don't like it, you're free to not visit it. Unless I told you in advance that you're not going to see ads, there's no basis for assuming that there won't be ads just like there's no basis for assuming you won't see NSFW content on a random website, religious content, political content, etc

Re:Why Lichess will always be free by Chris2048 on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:06AM (#26914916)
> You're the one assuming that the website will offer you something of interest without any reason to do so

Says who? Arguing against ads isn't arguing against compensation. You're assuming what is being assumed.

Re:Why Lichess will always be free by silicon2401 on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:47PM (#26916595)
Says the comment I replied to

> When I go to a website, I decide to direct my attention to this website, because I believe it will offer something of interest to me.

Re:Why Lichess will always be free by Chris2048 on Monday April 26, 2021 @03:05AM (#26940039)
That quote doesn't contradict what I said, since it says nothing about "without any reason to do so".

You are specifically talking about compensation, which that quote does not.

Re:Why Lichess will always be free by silicon2401 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:58PM (#26959245)
You must be pulling my leg, you're not even addressing what I've been commenting