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Wait, you mean the people that hoard all of our resources and don’t pay taxes will leave? Oh noes! 😱 What will we do without them…

LoL, that wasn’t the original internet. That was years after the internet had been around. <joke here about these kids needing to get off my lawn>

Maybe. As a buyer, I’ve had a few things never show up. Not stolen or anything, the tracking info says that they never showed up. But eBay still refuses to give me a refund.

What is the gain? What is a single gain you think they have milked from their users?

But nobody pays for Firefox? Do you mean the “recommended pages”?

They get money from Google, advertisements, and selling data. Did you think Mozilla made it without paying their employees and executives?

The costs only ballooned because the companies keep bloating themselves. It’s gotten cheaper to make games, but more expensive to run giant companies that pay ludicrus amounts of money to executives.

Money for their executives

“…from email to LLMs, that nobody self-hosts” As someone that self-hosts those things, both professionally and personally, I’m gonna have to disagree. I wish more did, but there are plenty of self-hosters out there, they just don’t get headlines.

The Pro had a funnier take on the same basic idea:

Because they keep betraying their supposed values for short-term gains.

I’ve been saying something similar for years: Consoles going online was the worst thing to ever happen to them. Their selling point used to be that you’d put in a cartridge/disc, and it would “just work”. Now it has all the downsides of PC gaming, with none of the upsides.