abmackenzie

But I don't get any $ from it unless they sign up on MY site, right? Since there's no sharing mechanism.

So I don't see how joining in would benefit me - if anything I'd lose a bit of revenue from people who would have paid and now find they don't need to because they're signed up for some other product which I have no hand in and no revenue from?

I'm a bit confused - you subscribe to one developer, and then get the benefit of being subscribed to all?

What's the incentive for a developer to sign up to this then, if they don't get a share of your subscription when you use their service? Isn't this a bit like asking Disney+ to give all Netflix subscribers access with no compensation?

While I agree that going with what the users want is the correct approach, but "a few digits less of accuracy" really undersells how much the data quality will suffer.

It will pretty much become useless (how many people are going to opt-in, realistically?) - and that's fine if it's what the community wants.

Then OP, or you, should cite the study that shows this isn't anecdotal evidence. It does not fall to me to back up other people's points.

Ah yes, anecdotal evidence, the bedrock of any sound scientific analysis.

Storing the length of a string alongside the string is a viable option in C, it's up to you to do it yourself though (whereas Java and almost every other language does it for you). See https://github.com/phusion/nginx/blob/master/src/core/ngx_st..., used by NGINX.

They may very well be unrelated, but shouldn't the FAA take precautions until that is known?

I expect advertisements from a website.

I do not expect advertisements from my web browser - and I don't think that's an unreasonable line to draw.