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		BoorishBears on Jan 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchange... How do you think those people sell? Or their customers find them? Where do people search for sites representing businesses? The Software industry would retract almost to the point of death relative to its current size without ads.

JoeAltmaier on Jan 16, 2019 [–]

I surely never follow ads. Most sites I find by word-of-mouth I think?

BoorishBears on Jan 17, 2019 | [–]

Good for you, you can go ahead and prop up the industry with your word of mouth.

JoeAltmaier on Jan 21, 2019 | | [–]

… or by using goods and services found through the web. Which makes it worthwhile for folks to put up web sites.

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