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BrenBarn • yesterday at 8:48 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

There is a difference between "read my content and make it available to your users" and "make money by reading my content and making it available to your users". Terms of use like this are trying to say "we are the only ones who get to make money from this", and therein lies the problem.


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sroussey • today at 12:16 AM

Yes, search engine should be non-profits. But they must send users to profit from.

devmor • yesterday at 9:58 PM

Well said. I'm sure a subset of the content that Cloudflare has indexed also has terms like Cloudflares, that they happily ignored.