The piracy community was unblocked quite soon after

Well, it’s a disorder, it’s right in the name.

If people “liked” it, they wouldn’t be taking meds to help them function.

I’m not hating, just think we should take things for what they are

Edit: sorry, thought we were talking about ADHD

They would probably have issues with publishers if you actually owned the titles.

It’d probably make them very heavily liable if for some reason Steam shut down, they had to make something unavailable for some reason, whatever.

They’re a public company, they’re required by law to share financial info.

Do you perhaps have better data though?

Farmers would disagree

Renting doesn’t just mean that you can’t afford to buy. It’s got other advantages, like not having to deal with repairs, upkeep, being able to move pretty much on a whim… Guess that’s worth it to some ppl

The moon, probably

What about a CDN for JS libraries?

What about YouTube embeds?

What about images from Imgur?

Why should all of this be handled by me, on my domain?

So how is this related?

AirVPN

He might’ve borrowed them from a library.

OpenAI could’ve trained on borrowed ebooks as well

Also a valid solution to the poop on the carpet problem.

Just saying

lmao you’re so wrong on ads being more profitable than premium, especially on a per-user basis

According to this you can expect to make around $18/1000 views. That’s with 55% going to the creator and 45% to Google. Which means that Google makes around $14.5 per 1000 views.

Coincidentally, that’s also rougly the price of YouTube Premium. Are you telling me that you watch a thousand videos per month?

They might be allowing them to run the boxes for free, but the ISPs are saving money on bandwidth, too.

Get enough users for the ISP to care and they’ll work with you. Otherwise, you probably don’t have all that many users to begin with, so the overhead that maintaining and distributing these boxes would create wouldn’t be worth it anyway.

Yes, pure html pages are so much better and nicer to use!

Won’t work, can’t work.

There are companies which have insane revenues but tiny profits - let’s say manufacturing, where you need to pay a shitton for materials and workers, just to get a bit in return.

There are also companies where the main source of income is selling people’s time, say a consulting firm like McKinsey. Their income/revenue ratio is gonna be totally different from the first example.

I’m sure there are good ways to do it but this ain’t one of them.

Hell yeah

That’s literally it though

Wouldn’t fit very well into something like a smartphone though

Yeah so what I’m saying is if they got paid enough, same or more than what they’re getting with tips, we wouldn’t need to tip.