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Comment by PennRobotics

5 years ago

I mean, data transfer is not totally without costs.

At a few thousand reads per day, a MB or so per read... this is costing up to FIFTY DOLLARS PER YEAR to just... give our content away for free?!

Hang on; you're still serving ads, no?

So what's this about "free"? I mean, you weren't planning to charge me in the first place.

So you want to set a cookie so that you can make your ads more "targetted", and so more valuable? There's no public evidence that ad targetting even works.

But this "free" business - I suspect that some local US paper doesn't make a lot of money from ads served to EU residents. So is it possible that the lost revenue stream is from selling PII to data brokers? Oh dear - that's pretty evil, even if the visitor isn't in the EU.