Guest Column: Kentik's Doug Madory, Last Call for Upcoming ISOC Course + More

Sun Sep 10 02:07:19 UTC 2023

One could argue that much of this behavior was the result of most of
the internet preferring free, or nearly free, to paying for services
so all this jiggery-pokery evolved to try to make money to pay for
services and generate profits.

I suppose in theory one could argue they could have charged and
evolved all this but it's reasonable to wonder if that would have
happened, or at such scale. Or perhaps paying customers would have had
sufficient leverage to demand it not be done.

Much of the net arises from the question: Ok, no one will actually
want to pay for this (or not enough to make it worth our while to
implement), so what's the business model? I know, eyeballs, collect
and sell their information, track them mercilessly, stuff it with ads,
etc.

And here we are.

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