alt Hacker News>not only adds costs for servers
For 2025 hosting costs were $3.47M while taking in $208.6M in revenue. They have enough revenue to cover an increase of hosting costs.
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devindotcom • today at 6:35 PM
kind of like saying that because a restaurant is doing well, it should allow rats in the kitchen
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someonebaggy • today at 6:39 PM
They still get to sue for damages if a law was broken
"They should pay for it because they can afford it"
I don't think they should have to pay for some private company profiting off their publicly-available resources. It's a bit like some restaurant sending swarms of their employees to the local food bank and then reselling the free food they've gotten in their restaurant.