> It's good to remember that most businesses exist to make money, not to be pleasant to us HN readers.
HN does not have a monopoly on discerning users. We are not special. It would be unrealistic to think the number of people who care about this is but a subset of people who frequent one website.
>> It's good to remember that most businesses exist to make money, not to be pleasant to us HN readers.
> HN does not have a monopoly on discerning users
What he said (or what I understood) is the opposite:
Businesses can and will take advantage of less discerning users and they are in their right to do so because making money is their reason to exist. That's a terrible mindset that dominates the (big)tech/startup sector and the reason for the Great Enshittification. Let's see how far this can go before it collapses.
Do you have the data that you can share?
> It's good to remember that most businesses exist to make money, not to be pleasant to us HN readers.
HN does not have a monopoly on discerning users. We are not special. It would be unrealistic to think the number of people who care about this is but a subset of people who frequent one website.