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.

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