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> for every second you spend with a creator's work

Time spend is a really bad metric since it can easily be gamed. For non-entertainment content time spent could oven correlate negatively with value.

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Totally agree with this. We'll just end up with more waffling long form content packed with videos and distractions to encourage users to spend more time trying to find what they were originally looking for.

And if you're charged by time spent on a page it makes sense to use a bot to download the pages you want to read and then render them locally.

If I'm paying per second I can download something that would take me 5 minutes to read in 5 seconds, saving me 59/60ths of the cost.

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