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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by littlecranky67 on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:32PM (#45067033)
This. We need to get rid of the ad-supported free internet economy. If you want your content to be free, you release it and have no issues with AI. If you want to make money of your content, add a paywall.

We need micropayments going forward, Lightning (Bitcoin backend) could be the solution.

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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by rustc on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:38PM (#45067113)
> If you want your content to be free, you release it and have no issues with AI. If you want to make money of your content, add a paywall.

What about licenses like CC-BY-NC (Creative Commons - Non Commercial)?

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Re:The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “sign... by notpushkin on Friday August 29, 2025 @03:17PM (#45068234)
What about them? As we can see scrapers don’t care about copyright at all, so public licenses don’t really matter to them either.
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