Reply To: Obligation to read/listen to advertisements?

“they did not build the site for you as a favor or as an altrusitic endeavor to aid the community. It’s a business, plain and simple.”

So, hakaras hatov is exclusively reserved for altruism?

What about our obligations toward the Mitzrim for having been guests (“geirim”) in their land, though the Mitzrim clearly didn’t enslave the Jews in the spirit of altriusm?