The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet

Re:The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet by olah_1 on Saturday April 09, 2022 @09:40PM (#30973759)

You can’t get around the fact that HN is pay to play too though. that is my point.

You aren’t paying a fraction of a cent to post comments, but you’re paying in other ways. You just prefer the business model of HN, but i find the fraction of a cent model to be more straightforward and clear.

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Re:The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet by stjohnswarts on Saturday April 09, 2022 @10:24PM (#30973946)

You can't win this argument, hackernews isn't "pay to play". You are currently playing with it and you didn't pay even a microtransaction. Why do you keep saying it is pay to play? For whatever reason HN providers are doing it as a free service and you aren't paying anything.

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Re:The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet by olah_1 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @02:23PM (#30980038)

HN sells me as their audience to advertisers right?

Would you say that Youtube is “free” as well?

Many people would simply prefer a more transparent / straight forward business model and I don’t think they are wrong for having that preference.

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Re:The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet by omginternets on Sunday April 10, 2022 @01:57PM (#30979728)

You either don't know what "pay to play" means, or you're being disingenuous.

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Re:The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet by olah_1 on Sunday April 10, 2022 @02:24PM (#30980061)

Have you heard the phrase “time is money”?

I would say that Youtube is pay to play as well. You’re just paying with your attention to their advertisers.

I don’t think this logic is misplaced. HN has the same business model as all “free” tech platforms, doesn’t it?

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