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

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    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 the gave people money and crap for watching ads. It turns out people don’t like ads.

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      I remember having free dial-up Internet in the 90s in exchange for an adware banner while connected.

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      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 😄