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by GauntletWizard 2126 days ago
We're not talking about 80%. We're talking about 8%. The size of the traffic they are talking about is low enough that I, personally, would consider paying for it. It is a couple thousands of dollars a month to run this "abused" infrastructure. If they were doing it as a thankless task for free, it would make sense to be upset about it; but they're not. They're doing it for a cut of every single .com purchase on the whole web.