I couldn't really care less.

If you look at the middle part of the domain between news. and .com, it might remind you that this is a community of people building stuff, learning to sell it, improving upon the feedback.

I don't really see how pitching a legal solution in a thread below the pitch of an obviously illegal, or at least unethical one is problematic.

Fair enough. It just felt salesy, that’s all I‘m saying.

Why? This is HN no? The entire point of this community is to provide technology solutions (mostly through companies). If any place should welcome this, it should be HN.

You are right of course. I think it was something in the wording that turned me off. It was an instinctive reaction that I now regret.