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Re:Perplexity Response to Cloudflare by beardyw on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:31AM (#44795280)
They may, and do, refuse to send you the page. That is a more realistic parallel.

Without advertising the web would be largely unsupportable financially without per site subscriptions.

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Re:Perplexity Response to Cloudflare by skeledrew on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:34AM (#44799364)
Without advertising, the web would be a far healthier place today, free of click-bait and ad-infested, low effort, low quality content. Bad business models wouldn't've survived the light of day.
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