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Israel suffers worst combat losses since October, diplomatic isolation
(www.reuters.com)
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If the marginal cost of reproducing a thing approaches zero, then obviously the appropriate price point is "free". It costs almost nothing to serve a webpage, but if that page is filled with intrusive and potentially malicious adverts then the cost of viewing it is astronomical in comparison. You wouldnt go out in public naked, and nobody should be using the web without adblock.
Wut? To one person maybe, but once you're scaling to delivering that same webpage to hundreds of thousands to millions that cost rises dramatically lmao do you even know how powerful a system needs to be to serve a million requests for the same webpage at the same time?
Even a text only webpage is going to need some good power behind it just to handle the protocol overhead and that's not even covering the infrastructure costs
I look forward to the day I run into a Lemmy hug of death
I manage a system for work that handles tens of thousands of interactions per second during peak season, so yeah I'm intimately aware that the cost per visit scales down near zero with volume (a google search used to cost less than 1/1000 of a cent before they started feeding everything into LLMs).
Plus, ads are responsible for about 2/3rds the cost of serving a page, not to mention the liability when malicious content gets injected into your site by an ad network.
The ad-funded internet was a mistake that enabled the domination of Big Tech. Other financing models like subscriptions or donations are the safe and ethical alternative.