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by copsarebastards 3918 days ago
> One last comment: Not all businesses are conducive to a pay per use or pay per user model. For some things, that simply does not work. This is exactly why advertising has been used for decades by content providers, even before there was an Internet.

I'm not sure why anyone would care that these businesses don't work. Why are we expected to prop up businesses that don't work?