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setr 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted

Paying for it doesn’t make the site less miserable to use. One of the stupid things about piracy is that it tends to also be the best available version of the thing. You’re actively worse off having paid for it. (Ads, denial, DRM in general, MBs of irrelevant JS, etc don’t go away with money, but do with piracy)

janalsncm 10 months ago | [–]

Case in point: paying for the New York Times doesn’t block ads in their app.

a1o 10 months ago | [–]

This right here. It would be nice to have some perk like you can read the articles through Gopher.

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