There is not more free?

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Federico Firenze

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Jul 16, 2013, 4:02:37 PM7/16/13
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Previously could manually access the photos found, now go directly to the checkout screen? ..

If so, I feel ripped off and cheated for having collaborated with your database!

Matt Burns

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Jul 18, 2013, 5:33:02 AM7/18/13
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Hi Federico,

You can still see the results for free in that you can see if we have any photos in our database taken with your camera. You can also see thumbnails now so you can tell if they are photos you took or someone else took. So really, you only have to pay if I've found your camera. I really didn't want to have to force any payment at all. I created this project as an open-source project with no intention of trying to monetise it. The unfortunate reality is that for the service to be good I need a huge database of millions of camera sightings supporting concurrent requests from thousands of web crawlers. As you can imagine, this is expensive. I tried covering the costs with ads and donations but that didn't work. My choice was to either charge for the service, or turn it off.

I hope you understand,
Matt
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