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29 Jul 2024 22:31:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Internet research problem #45784  
From: andrel
Date: 6 Apr 2011 17:08:30
Message: <4D9CD64F.5060503@gmail.com>
On 6-4-2011 19:42, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> Worse, all these web interfaces are 10% content and 90% adverts.
>
>    Not really related, but it reminded me of file sharing services.
>
>    There are free file sharing services out there (in other words, if you
> want to share a file with people but don't have any online server account
> of your own where you could put it, these services provide a way to simply
> put the file in their server for others to download). However, the vast
> majority (if not all) of them are completely crippled with adverts, nag
> screens and artificial delays, unless you pay for the service, and these
> services often require cookies, javascripts, referrers and whatnot to be
> enabled in the browser.
>
>    Why I find this extremely odd? Because often people just share small files
> with these services (such as zipped log files or whatever) and there are
> *video* sharing sites out there which are distributing literally terabytes
> of data completely for free, with no nagging screens, adverts, artificial
> delays, which you can freely embed wherever you want, and so on. And the
> only thing they require from the browser is support for flash.
>

Steganography is the solution. ;)


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