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333 points indigodaddy | 1 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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SeriousM ◴[13 Nov 22 08:20 UTC] No.33581115[source]▶
I love open source and free stuff, but I also understand that there is nothing for free.

This thread is packed with people wanting a free service, better open source for their (hopefully legal acquired) media. The code of the services is written by programmers in (mostly) their free time, the movies are produced by professionals and all you want is it even more cheaper! I wonder if you see that most of this "free stuff" you and I use every day was not accidentally "here" but financed by ads via Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Yahoo, etc.

Accept that sometimes ads are ok because it enables this freedom.

I myself use a pihole in my network to reduce the ads which works quite well to block annoying stuff.

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kennend3 ◴[13 Nov 22 13:06 UTC] No.33582676[source]▶
Normally I dont explain my downvotes but i will do this here.

> Accept that sometimes ads are ok because it enables this freedom. > I wonder if you see that most of this "free stuff" you and I use every day

I've used Linux for decades but never saw a single ad yet this is "free"?

I also use a lot of opensource software (Libreoffice, Opera, you get the idea) none of these have ads.

As you said the code is written by people in their free time, if they want to support it via ads they are free to do so, but very few do.

If I pay for something I'd rather not have ads on top of this. They should have charged more instead of getting me as a customer and then putting ads into things.

Jellyfin is free and lacks ads. Plex charges a fee and has ads?

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1. SeriousM ◴[13 Nov 22 21:54 UTC] No.33587764[source]▶
Open software is important as it enables developer to learn and to value the community around the ecosystem. But please think about not just the software part. You use open software, but where was it stored? Who paid for the infrastructure to reach you home so that you can download it? Where was it built, was it a free service like github actions? Who pays the hundred of people to build the service and who pays the guys who maintains the servers and avoid the DDoS? Look, I don't want to fight nor was it my intention. I wanted to raise the awareness that the free software is not free and the people shouldn't take it granted just because they have the access to the stuff.