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stingraycharlestoday at 2:40 AM2 repliesview on HN

Yeah, the usual approach here is to offer a free VPN service, and then piggyback traffic over the user’s internet provider. Much, much more scalable and cheaper than offering to put GPUs at a user’s home.


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mitxelatoday at 6:44 AM

You can offer them a free anything, really. It's a pretty convenient way to pay, that mostly doesn't affect the user at all (unless their connection is very slow), but generates value.

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bornfreddytoday at 5:24 AM

Wow, that's genius. Basically, user gets a VPN but so does provider, in a sense.