>I emphatically sympathize with the journalist who have been recently let go.

I don't, hopefully they all get fired.

Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, regardless of how you feel about journalists.

Break up Google while you're at it.

More like Amazon

How about all three? Instead of everyone just picking their favorite platform for dubious reasons and blindly adhering to that corp maybe we should just bust them all up at once in one swoop, whether they are on your "team" or not.

Google is probably the most dangerous and abusive of the three today, but I think Amazon is trying to steal that throne and will probably be much scarier in a few years.

Why not both?

Exit nodes aren't the killer feature of Tor anymore, everyone blocks those easily, it's hidden services.

IIRC their Yahoo deal runs out in 2020, they'll be in trouble after that.

Seems like many went to SubscribeStar, more because Patreon pulled a Tumblr and purged the adult content than political reasons.

>The correct response is not to try to advertise...

Never going to happen, they say marketers ruin everything for a reason.

I'm not saying "don't advertise at all", but rather "advertise something very different". Does that matter, though? Maybe not.

It's predictable that Internet companies stop being benevolent when their growth has ended, everyone will move elsewhere and it'll happen again in a few years.