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so basically you're getting a surveillance device shipped straight to your living room.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I mentioned it on the other thread, but free-pc tried this twenty four years ago and it was a dumb idea then.

There was also NetZero, alladvantage, and probably others that I'm forgetting that gave people money and crap for watching ads. It turns out people don't like ads.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

NetZero was the best for me, I was in middle school and this was the only way I could get Internet since my parents wouldn't pay for a respectable ISP, anyway I searched for ways to get rid of the banner and finally found one where it would just be a small black square ๐Ÿ˜„

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