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I did not follow the history of all (re)incarnations of Open Bazaar in detail, but as far as I can tell, none had a
working revenue model.
Furthermore, the search feature used to suck, and there was (necessary) censorship due to a lack of privacy tech,
exposed IP addresses, and Bitcoin's anti-privacy design.