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Re:Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45M Visits per Month Mak... by appleiigs on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:10AM (#35231744)
Your comment doesn’t make sense. What profit motive? It drove them to shutdown and people to use ad blockers. The feedback loop is positive: behave well -> profit. Your comment discusses the inverse: behave poorly -> go to jail.
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Re:Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45M Visits per Month Mak... by vkou on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:29AM (#35231992)
The profit motive in question is the motive to fill your screen with shitty, laggy, possibly dangerous ads. Have you visited your local newspaper's website, or a fandom property, lately?

Once enough people do that, the users install adblockers, which also hurts advertisers who were not filling your screen with shitty, laggy, possibly dangerous ads.

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