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Re:Show HN: Create a Paid Link to Anything by geysersam on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:12PM (#34069814)
If you trust the seller giving you the link, why would you doubt you'll get the content after paying?

Any link you click on a page could lead to a malicious site. But again, if you trust the seller, why would you think they would link you to a malicious site?

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Re:Show HN: Create a Paid Link to Anything by y2bd on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:30PM (#34071168)
100%, I don't understand the disconnect people are having.

I'm assuming people here buy things online from more places than just Amazon.com. Why would you give your credit card info to a website supposedly representing some small shop in Estonia? Because the shop has reputation that you're familiar with. Maybe you vaguely know the people who run the shop, or you have friends that have ordered stuff from them before.

People here are going "what if scammers create links with this?" as if that hasn't been a problem with trade for millennia. Why would you be giving money to someone you don't know or trust in the first place?

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Re:Show HN: Create a Paid Link to Anything by elliotec on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:00PM (#34076480)
Why would you trust the seller?
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Re:Show HN: Create a Paid Link to Anything by gus75 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:01AM (#34078695)
Why would you buy anything on the internet if you don't trust the seller ?
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Re:Show HN: Create a Paid Link to Anything by geysersam on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:32AM (#34081178)
Are you serious?
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