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“This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
The title you're reading is what we changed it to. The submitted title was "This story is exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday". We changed it to an exact quote from the article and put it in quotation marks. p.s. Please don't use uppercase for emphasis: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
Come Tuesday it won't be an exact quote anymore.
By that logic, all article titles should be written in the past tense.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quora permanently lost me several years ago when they suddenly forced me to select five categories of interest before I could continue to the question I was interested in. Forcing me to do something I have no interest in and will never make use of is a good way to alienate me.
Quora requires registration to simply read it. That's at least going to lose them viewers who don't want to bother.
Yep, for awhile I didn't even register; I used some trick (I forget what it was) to get around that.
Eventually I did register. And then the above requirement came, and that was the final nail in the coffin.
Re: “This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”
#54The question that immediately comes to my mind is how do they know whether that URL (the news.apple.com one) is being accessed from the app or not? It redirects immediately back to wired.com, so could it be as trivial as User-agent or some other header?
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#55Well, looks like somebody found a "cure" for adblock ;) I miss the Wired of ten years ago. Now whenever I pick one up I am immensely disappointed by the hype and marketing. I remember it being more rigorous with respect to both journalism and technical acumen. Edit: or not, per other post regarding adblock coming soon to apple.
Honestly, it was about 1000x better just 3 years ago :/
Re: “This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”
#56Wired will be losing ad revenue due to Apple adding ad blocking abilities to mobile Safari. So, Wired moves content to Apple News which has ads that can't be blocked (and Apple conveniently takes a nice juicy cut of).
It's almost certain that Apple's long game is to make this the norm. If there's one surefire way to get people addicted to ad blockers, it's to make them available on mobile devices. Once enough content creators start moving content behind News-walls, then Apple can roll out desktop versions of News. And as people then start asking each other "how do I get ad blocking in my browser as well," Apple's well positioned to be the only unblockable advertising platform, period. They could even use iTunes as a vector to deliver an Apple News desktop app to Windows machines.
It's brilliant and will completely change the balance of power in online advertising. Google will not be happy...
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#57Apple is implementing a content paywall at the device level.
Should I add a paywall warning for Wired to https://github.com/voltagex/hackernews-paywalltag/?
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#58HTTP ERROR 418 Wrong Client
The client you are using does not currently have access to this resource but may in the future as specified by the Expires header in the response. The user should either switch to a supported client as specified in the response body to access this resource or the current client should retry at the specified date. The current client MUST NOT retry the resource before the specified date.
Re: “This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”
#59Do you ever wonder what the conversations were like which led to decisions like this?
This is how I imagine it went:
Apple: "We'll give you a lot of money if you make content exclusive to us"
Wired: "Lets trial run it with one article and see how it goes, and we'd like the exclusivity period to expire"
Apple: "Sure, but we'll have to come back to the timed exclusivity, we think you'll cave"
Re: “This story is being previewed exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday”
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quora requires registration to simply read it. That's at least going to lose them viewers who don't want to bother.
Yep, for awhile I didn't even register; I used some trick (I forget what it was) to get around that. Eventually I did register. And then the above requirement came, and that was the final nail in the coffin.
Adding share=1 to the query string allows unregistered viewing.
Such a strange decision by quora. No wonder they're so irrelevant.