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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by insanitybit on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:52PM (#38729956)
All of those businesses subsidize their sites because they're billion dollar companies. Is that better than just... using ads?

> I believe this implies that saying that you must have ads to have free online services is a fallacy.

I'm saying someone has to pay for it.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by skydhash on Thursday December 21, 2023 @09:53PM (#38730398)
Hosting a static cheap is cheap. And even something powered by a CMS can be hosted on a cheap droplet. No one really expects you to share contents like video and music for free (and even that can be done cheaply if you’re only loking at a few TB of monthly bandwith). So yeah, someone should pay for it, but the internet itself isn’t free and everyone is paying for it.
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