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Re:We accepted surveillance as default by dotancohen on Monday April 20, 2026 @06:41PM (#47842004)
My personal website has been up for over two and a half decades. I've paid for hosting and for the domain name. Never had an ad on the site.
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Re:We accepted surveillance as default by colesantiago on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:34PM (#47842559)
So do you expect everyone else to not earn an income from their website if they so choose?

> Never had an ad on the site.

You know there are other ways of people making money without doing ads right?

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Re:We accepted surveillance as default by dotancohen on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @02:32AM (#47845316) 

  > So do you expect everyone else to not earn an income from their website if they so choose?
No. I expect the fact that a website _can_ be run without ads to become reasonably well known. Not that a website _must_ be run without ads.

> You know there are other ways of people making money without doing ads right?

Yes, of course. And as per the conversion, there was no need to mention that obvious fact.

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