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Are there ways to use usenet without a payment/subscription?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (18 children)

No, and that's a good thing.

How should they make money? Services and Storage cost money. Period. That has to be paid by someone. Either be it the users, or some sketchy not-giving-a-shit-about-privacy-advertising company because hosters on the usenet have to sell your data to pay for the servers.

Easy as that.

And since usenet is used for a lot of piracy, i 100% DON'T want it to be financed by shit like this. I pay for it and i know i am safe.
Don't forget. If a product is free - you are the product.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, but paying for something does not automatically mean that they won't still sell your shit anyways.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

that's sadly true, but in the past - the pirates turned out to be the fair and square ones that i could trust....unlike the others

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