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beardyw 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Perplexity Response to Cloudflare

They may, and do, refuse to send you the page. That is a more realistic parallel.

Without advertising the web would be largely unsupportable financially without per site subscriptions.

skeledrew 10 months ago [–]

Without advertising, the web would be a far healthier place today, free of click-bait and ad-infested, low effort, low quality content. Bad business models wouldn't've survived the light of day.

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