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Old Feb 25, 2013 | 2:01 pm
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Originally Posted by mooper
I'm not concerned about the Facebook, network, and privacy concerns detailed by others above. The reason I'd be weary is that it is MLM-like in the sense that *if* it becomes popular, the pool of people who will connect to your spot and earn you the 100MB will quickly dry up, essentially rendering it a paid service.
That's partially what they're hoping for. If this becomes big enough where you can rely on finding Karma hotspots everywhere, people without the device will pay for bandwidth.

If you do connect from a laptop, it's very obvious what websites you're using to authenticate, as it sends you to a facebook.com url.
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