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0 pointsratelimitsteve4mo ago0 comments

it's easier to monetize a video, and if this information is going to have value and be presented for free there has to be someone giving someone money somewhere.

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dylan6044mo ago

Suggesting someone can make money off of their efforts that doesn't cost the viewer/reader anything directly is one thing, but to suggest nobody anywhere ever posts anything to the internet without the expectation of monetizing it is just totally ignoring how the internet was started.

ratelimitsteveOP4mo ago

no one is talking about the entire internet starting from 1976, we're talking about the tech tips space in 2025 where a vanishingly small percentage of people are acting in a non-monetizable way.

dylan6044mo ago

Maybe we can get somebody willing to do a "in a weekend" project scraping websites to just to make that content available on a free website. of course, nobody could afford the hosting fees once all of the bots start scraping your site that you built by scraping other sites.

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dylan6044mo ago

ratelimitsteveOP4mo ago

no one is talking about the entire internet starting from 1976, we're talking about the tech tips space in 2025 where a vanishingly small percentage of people are acting in a non-monetizable way.

dylan6044mo ago

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