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Re:I Fear for the Unauthenticated Web by tqwhite on Thursday March 20, 2025 @01:20PM (#43426056)
Aren't you paying for me to use the site, too? Or Google? Isn't the point of paying for a web hosting service to distribute information?
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Re:I Fear for the Unauthenticated Web by fewsats on Thursday March 20, 2025 @03:02PM (#43427519)
Yes, but there is a "free lunch" problem. I can run a script that hits your page costing you X at a fraction of the cost for me (the user)

*Edit: typo

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Re:I Fear for the Unauthenticated Web by tqwhite on Thursday March 20, 2025 @07:17PM (#43430146)
I think the whole internet is a free lunch problem as far as that goes. I pay for web hosting because I consider the cost to be worth it to send my fabulous opinions into the ether.

The premise of this thread is that somehow the LLM builders are reading too much. I bet it's less than google.

I continue to believe, if you don't want everyone in the world to see and use your stuff, don't put it on the internet.

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