Article: Web freebies cost only your time, privacy

The Web is a freeloader's paradise, the ultimate source of something for nothing. Free information. Free advice. Free e-mail. Free Web space. Free time waste.Knock yourself out.

Indulge me one snide opinion here. Anything that is this unrelated to traditional cost considerations provides practically no incentive to filter out totally frivolous rubbish.

As a result, a massive chunk of the Web is a trash bin of trivial, self-serving, abandoned Web pages that nobody is ever going to bother to clean out or look at again. It's the exponential vanity press nestled in the Virtual International Archives. Lint for a lifetime. All right! Let's build our own FREE, personal home page! Why not? ...

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