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Is FreeRice.com making $150K a day? (thepcspy.com)
8 points by jraines on Nov 13, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



This is cross-posted from reddit.

Answers: no, but still probably a lot. The site is not affiliated with a charity, so who knows if they actually give rice or not.

Anyway, everyone knows that solving hunger is not about quantity of food (there is plenty to be had) but rather about distribution--the places where people are starving are that way because their government is corrupt. It doesn't matter how much food is sent.


I don't agree with the whole "should register as a charity". This isn't a charity since last time I checked my time is not tax deductible (but if you happen to know a really good tax lawyer that would let me deduct hours spent playing vocab games it would be awesome).

Nobody is essentially donating money to this business, the advertisers pay them for the traffic they generate. It's simply a business with a noble goal.


Answer: No. The writer doesn't understand how web advertising works and based it on ludicrous assumptions. The $150k is also sensationalized.


No. Not $150k. Not $15k. Not 1k.




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