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		chongli on June 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Return of the 90s Web SEO sites have an Achilles' heel though: they need to make money somehow, and 99% it's going to be ads. So filter them out based on that. Create a space for a noncommercial web.

jefftk on June 19, 2020 [–]

They can also make money by selling things. Much harder to detect algorithmically than ads, and I don't know if you want to filter it out?

dredmorbius on June 19, 2020 | [–]

Or by scams, hoaxes, fraud, blackmail, pump-and-dump, propaganda, ....

Less than ads and subscriiptions, but enough to fund a lot of crap.

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