Wondering how much of the Lemmy user base wouldn’t use an adblocker. If you do use one what other blocking do you use to circumvent data collection, YouTube and reddit front ends and things alike?

  • Electric
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    111 months ago

    It costs money to host a website. And if the creator feels they are entitled to some money if people keep viewing their content, then that’s alright.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months ago

      It costs about 15€ a year to have a domain, and a bit of electricity with server equipment depending on the size of your platform.

      They can get the money by selling merch in their webshop or even like Wikipedia rely on donations.

      It doesn’t need to be a whole datacenter, like Facebook. Better not to actually.

    • @ShroOmeric
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      111 months ago

      They are free to feel entitled. Good for them.