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This site has one of the most annoying paywalls I've seen. As you scroll down, the page loads the next article. The paywall script detects this as you trying to read another article and throws a pop-up about how you read 3 of the 6 free articles you have. Much to my annoyance, it doesn't let me return to the kafka article but redirects me to the article it auto-loaded. Even if I go back, the same thing happens.
> YOU'VE READ 3 OF 6 FREE ARTICLES . Just because a page was loaded and scrolled doesn't mean it has been read. They could at least measure if the user spent more than 30 seconds on the page before counting an article as read. Also, you have to have an account to continue reading. That sucks. shouldn't happen on a news site/mag.
The measurement should be better (and not autoload articles) but if they feel their content deserves direct payment, that's their right. This will only start to become more anyway as adblocking continues and publishers need to protect access - which means there will need to be accounts/logins.
I'd happily pay if I was charged 25-50 cents per article. But I wouln't want to have to subscribe to the entire magazine for only one article. I do not think the would be many who only follow a few preferred mags online, people usually end up on articles via links, and read the article and do not see the website until they bump into some other link to it.
But if the abovementioned service existed, where I had deposited some amount, and the mag had a link, "Connect with Readbettr to read the rest of the article", after a compelling abstract, and when I clicked, it automatically charged me ¢50 and let me read the article, with a single login, and it sent me a PDF copy automatically, I'd be a happy paying user of many online news and content sources.
This thing does not exist, and I leave the idea here for the taking. Someone please make this.
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There was nothing wrong with your original phrasing.
I didn't mean it was wrong with regards to syntax or grammar. Just that it was a slightly strange thing to say -- seeing as existentialism is concerned with the emptiness, horrors and anxieties of being alive (and doubly so in Kafka), and "favorite" implies something one enjoys.
You're mistaken to think so about existantialism. I suggest you read "Existentialism is a Humanism [1]", which is a document I've studied very recently and one that I'll study again, and one has been influential to me. Existantialism is an idea based on the hypothesis that man exists without a purpose, without a creator and without predefined values, i.e. he comes to exist before his essence, that which he is responsible of and confined to defining and creating by himself; and that he "in fashioning himself, fashions man", i.e. with his decisions, he demonstrates what he thinks is apt for all the humanity. The linked text explains it all better than my humble summary.
[1] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exis...
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The measurement should be better (and not autoload articles) but if they feel their content deserves direct payment, that's their right. This will only start to become more anyway as adblocking continues and publishers need to protect access - which means there will need to be accounts/logins.
Startup idea: Readbettr, a login and payments provider for online mags and newspapers. I'd happily pay if I was charged 25-50 cents per article. But I wouln't want to have to subscribe to the entire magazine for only one article. I do not think the would be many who only follow a few preferred mags online, people usually end up on articles via links, and read the article and do not see the website until they bump int…
It's only targeting the Netherlands and Germany right now, but a few big name papers from the US are already available. And it's an app instead of a website. Apparently you can even get refunds for articles after reading them.
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Startup idea: Readbettr, a login and payments provider for online mags and newspapers. I'd happily pay if I was charged 25-50 cents per article. But I wouln't want to have to subscribe to the entire magazine for only one article. I do not think the would be many who only follow a few preferred mags online, people usually end up on articles via links, and read the article and do not see the website until they bump int…
https://blendle.com/ It's only targeting the Netherlands and Germany right now, but a few big name papers from the US are already available. And it's an app instead of a website. Apparently you can even get refunds for articles after reading them.
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The measurement should be better (and not autoload articles) but if they feel their content deserves direct payment, that's their right. This will only start to become more anyway as adblocking continues and publishers need to protect access - which means there will need to be accounts/logins.
Startup idea: Readbettr, a login and payments provider for online mags and newspapers. I'd happily pay if I was charged 25-50 cents per article. But I wouln't want to have to subscribe to the entire magazine for only one article. I do not think the would be many who only follow a few preferred mags online, people usually end up on articles via links, and read the article and do not see the website until they bump int…
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Startup idea: Readbettr, a login and payments provider for online mags and newspapers. I'd happily pay if I was charged 25-50 cents per article. But I wouln't want to have to subscribe to the entire magazine for only one article. I do not think the would be many who only follow a few preferred mags online, people usually end up on articles via links, and read the article and do not see the website until they bump int…
This is in the works (by me and several other companies). Scale, technical issues, politics and business models are why this will take a long time to make happen.
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I didn't mean it was wrong with regards to syntax or grammar. Just that it was a slightly strange thing to say -- seeing as existentialism is concerned with the emptiness, horrors and anxieties of being alive (and doubly so in Kafka), and "favorite" implies something one enjoys.
"existentialism is concerned with the emptiness, horrors and anxieties of being alive" You're mistaken to think so about existantialism. I suggest you read "Existentialism is a Humanism [1]", which is a document I've studied very recently and one that I'll study again, and one has been influential to me. Existantialism is an idea based on the hypothesis that man exists without a purpose, without a creator and without…
The "Existentialism is a Humanism" presents a more "heroic" outlook of the matter, associated with Sartre's engagement with politics at the time. Even so it deals with anxiety, lack of values, etc. That "in fashioning himself, fashions man" only works as an encouragement if you also believe that people everywhere in large quantities are fashioning the world for the better (as Sartre did with regards to communism).
But for the more bleak outlook that is quite more common, you can read Sartre's own "Nausea" to see how the ideas as described in "E.I.A.H" can play into everyday life. Even the title of the novel ("sea sickness" -- meant about the absurdity of life, is telling). The angst/anxiety etc. is more often than not present without any conveniently comforting heroic ideas of self-fashioning, like in the end of the book, or in E.I.A.H.