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originally posted by: Genfinity
a reply to: NewGuy3
If I owned this site and lost interest in it, I would still be interested in making $1 million or even $100,000 (US) from it. Of all the members on here, somebody on here has that kind of spare change.
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It sounds like you don't know why the site was sold. The former owners claimed it was no longer profitable, citing such factors as advertisers no longer wanting to advertise on sites where there were comments (and this site is all comments), and too many visitors to the site running adblockers, tanking ad revenue. You might want to read this thread by one of the former owners, to catch up on why it was sold:
originally posted by: Genfinity
a reply to: NewGuy3
Run some google ads on the right side and you'll make the money back. Give members the option to pay a small premium to be able to turn the ads off.
If the new owner died, that would be a valid excuse for no longer showing any interest in the site for which he was supposedly a big fan. But that timing could just be a coincidence.
originally posted by: Mahogani
a reply to: NewGuy3
I wrote a thread a few months back proposing Darko was actually Yevgeny Prigozhin (or one of his troll farm employees), and how the timeline around his death coincided with Darko's disappearance.
originally posted by: Mahogani
a reply to: NewGuy3
I wrote a thread a few months back proposing Darko was actually Yevgeny Prigozhin (or one of his troll farm employees), and how the timeline around his death coincided with Darko's disappearance.
Now that we know from SO that the buyer was some big crypto guy -- that definitely makes it more believable to me. Russians are huge into crypto and that's how they finance their Western operations. So are other nations.
I'd be interested in knowing whether they ever met the buyer, or if it was all over anonymous communication or emails? Were any precautions made that it wasn't a foreign government buying it all?
Was The Above Network sold, or just ATS?