Because the original blocker: AdBlock, did. And some donated more than others. The rest is history.
Wikipedia also accepts donations
Why don't you accept donations?
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Theoretically the same applies to Kickstarter. Supposedly it is not a pre-order platform, but everyone treats it that way and gets all bent out of shape if the reward never materializes.
Kickstarter can claim to be whatever it wants, but if I say if you give me $2,000 I'll do my best to delivermagical super shoes... And I end up taking all the money and spending it a 2-month trip to Canada,I've sort of done something wrong. No matter what Kickstarter says, you can definitely be sued if you take someone's money and don't deliver what you promised. I absolutely loved Kickstarter when it came out, but I…
I think Kickstarter just wasn’t ever for you. It’s for folks like me who have no need to keep track of this stuff. I just want the thing to exist.
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It's actually a substantive money saver in a shared compute environment. Running Windows RDS or VDA solutions, you can actually watch CPU and RAM reductions across the board by deploying uBlock Origin.
I wonder how much CO2 uBlock origin saved so far.
Me too. More broadly, I'd very much like an energy meter for web pages.
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> We need a payment system which makes transactions that small efficient. And it needs to be anonymous for the buyer, because the whole point is to get rid of the tracking, right? Hopefully Monero will achieve this one day.
My monero investment is down so bad that a micro payment is all I will be able to afford
Monero is a good currency but a really bad investment. That's probably a good thing too. If its price remains stable relative to USD, we can start developing the habit of pricing everything in XMR instead. I've gotten paid in XMR for writing some quick code, it works pretty well. Now we just need to get people to sell oil barrels for XMR.
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sounds more like you are uncomfortable billing your market value, like most of us - you should charge at least a day’s worth of your old (or current) salary for one hour of this kind of on-demand work. If they don’t want to pay, that’s great, it means it really wasn’t that important after all…
I think this has more to do with the fact that not everything has to be a market all the time.
This is my thinking as well. Sometimes cooperation makes life easier in the long run than competition. Since I help my coworkers without asking for anything in return they do the same for me when I'm stuck. That way nobody is afraid to ask for help, nobody is left behind on deadlines and we all get decent performance reviews.
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It's actually a substantive money saver in a shared compute environment. Running Windows RDS or VDA solutions, you can actually watch CPU and RAM reductions across the board by deploying uBlock Origin.
I wonder how much CO2 uBlock origin saved so far.
The "this is a huge waste of energy in scamming people" argument deployed against cryptocurrency is also valid for traditional spam, and most web advertising, it's just that it's not so visible any more. Google must have a datacenter worth of computers doing classification on email.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
My monero investment is down so bad that a micro payment is all I will be able to afford
Monero is a good currency but a really bad investment. That's probably a good thing too. If its price remains stable relative to USD, we can start developing the habit of pricing everything in XMR instead. I've gotten paid in XMR for writing some quick code, it works pretty well. Now we just need to get people to sell oil barrels for XMR.
Man, that's really interesting
Looks like Monero hasn't been pumping or dumping quite as much as other cryptocurrencies, maybe that means its creators actually care about making it useful as currency rather than as a medium for ~~scams~~ "investments"
I'd love an ad-free future, but something tells me that there'll always just be too much pressure to make more ads. Hell, Amazon is pumping $10,000,000 per episode into a TV show that's arguably just a big ad for Amazon (subscribe to our TV service to watch this show, buy some socks and video games while you're here)
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I have never used an ad blocker and have resisted installing it many times. My thinking always was: I'd rather have a web with ads than a web in which I have to pay for content and sign up to 800 different websites with 800 different accounts. A website that I've frequented a lot, the German news website spiegel.de, has converted to pay only mostly, and i now can't use it anymore. I am not saying that's the fault of…
There's an alternative solution that enables people to produce content that doesn't require them to make an income through advertising or subscriptions. It can be accomplished through higher taxes and a universal basic income. Essentially: ensure that all people on earth have their basic needs met. A lot of people will produce incredible creative work, and it has been shown time and time again that government support…
How much UBI could we realistically afford right now? Keeping in mind that there'd be an incredibly huge reduction in economic productivity, since pretty much everyone hates working
I'm guessing we could actually keep people fed, but I'm wondering if we'd end up living in really crappy shacks without first world quality utilities
I dunno if I'd want a UBI utopia if it requires a 1700s-quality lifestyle