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The New Internet

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517 points ingve | 1 comments | 26 Jul 24 18:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dakiol ◴[27 Jul 24 09:03 UTC] No.41085355[source]▶
One thing I don’t understand. The article claims that we need to pay rent to big corps like AWS, which is true only if you’re offering something on the internet (e.g., you have a saas). As a consumer I don’t pay to AWS, I only pay to my isp. Now, the article wants everyone (the ones who have something to offer, and the consumers) to switch to this new internet… so both producers and consumers (peers now) need to pay rent to tailscale (unless you selfhost, but selfhosting is like the first story tell tell in the article about asking your isp for a static ip address, opening ports and the like; self hosting is too much work).

Smells like more centralisation, not less.

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1. vwkd ◴[27 Jul 24 10:20 UTC] No.41085591[source]▶
As a buyer you also don't pay VAT to the government. You pay the seller a price that's marked up exactly by VAT, which the seller then pays to the government.

In summary, if you don't pay it directly doesn't mean you don't pay it indirectly.