> This alpha version is free until we release beta!
This implies that you will, at some point, be charging a fee to remove revenue from other sites. Does this not border on unethical business practice?
This implies that you will, at some point, be charging a fee to remove revenue from other sites. Does this not border on unethical business practice?
Or to sell a wide-range solution to a problem, for which previously only peacemeal solutions were available on the market?
I believe these questions are no different from yours, and that all of those are ethical; if the site needs to keep track of some balance that I would have on that site, they should make me create an account before ever showing an article.
Note that I'm not advocating for piracy / circumvention of DRM, but against the 'you have read your 3 free articles this month, please create an account'-pattern. If you offer free articles without an explicit user account, you should not be suprised that the anonymous user expects those articles to be free and uses workarounds to get past the toll gates.
It's an inherently subjective question.