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Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web

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Post by kelnos »

time4tea wrote: post #7

You can use pihole or pyhole to just block them for your home, then vpn from your phone. No more ads. Then buy subscription to sites you like. Dont give google a percentage of everything.

The problem is that most (all?) site subscriptions now are all-or-nothing, and even if you do like a site, you probably like several, and paying $10-$30 per month (or whatever) each for even 5 different sites starts adding up real fast.

If sites were to offer an "article bank", it might be more compelling: you put in $X and that buys you Y articles, which you can read over the span of days, months, or years. But no one seems to be doing that, probably because they believe the economics of breakage is better.

Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web

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Post by kelnos »

BoiledCabbage wrote: post #14
omarforgotpwd wrote: post #8

Good idea, extremely poor execution. Nobody is going to want to use it if different sites are charging you different amounts per page. People want predictable bills.

Completely disagree. I want to be able to pay more for quality content and pay less for buzzfeed articles. I want content creators to be able to charge based on the the content they are producing. I prefer a world where I can stop in a fine dining restaurant or a fast-food place, get the experience I want and be charged appropriately. I don't want a top of the line steak-house to have to find a way to serve my meal,…

Agreed. As long as it's clear what I'm going to pay before I open each article, I have no problem paying more for an article from a trusted news source than from a tabloid.

Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web

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Post by seanp2k2 »

BoiledCabbage wrote: post #14
omarforgotpwd wrote: post #8

Good idea, extremely poor execution. Nobody is going to want to use it if different sites are charging you different amounts per page. People want predictable bills.

Completely disagree. I want to be able to pay more for quality content and pay less for buzzfeed articles. I want content creators to be able to charge based on the the content they are producing. I prefer a world where I can stop in a fine dining restaurant or a fast-food place, get the experience I want and be charged appropriately. I don't want a top of the line steak-house to have to find a way to serve my meal,…

Where are the steakhouses? That's my problem with the current state of the paid content web; it seems to be a race to the bottom, with few exceptions (and the exceptions in my experience seem to be mostly enthusiasts doing it not for a living).

Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web

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Post by kelnos »

gabrielgoh wrote: post #3

im not sure this is a good idea (as a consumer) anything which injects extra buying decisions in my life seems like a bad idea. Imagine having to wonder if I really wanted to spend that 0.01 cents on the next page of popular mechanics or not. I'd rather pay more for say, unlimited monthly access

That's the thing that really annoys me about human psychology (to which I myself am of course not immune). I don't subscribe to any sites that offer subscriptions because I rarely visit any one particular site to make it worth it (I rarely, if ever, run into, for example, the NYT free article limit). I block all ads, but I certainly wouldn't mind paying a reasonable per-article price all the same.

By not offering per-article pricing, they're actually _losing_ money from me, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if going to per-article pricing would result in less revenue than monthly subscriptions overall.

Re: Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web

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Post by RunawayGalaxy »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #23
BoiledCabbage wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Completely disagree. I want to be able to pay more for quality content and pay less for buzzfeed articles. I want content creators to be able to charge based on the the content they are producing. I prefer a world where I can stop in a fine dining restaurant or a fast-food place, get the experience I want and be charged appropriately. I don't want a top of the line steak-house to have to find a way to serve my meal,…

Where are the steakhouses? That's my problem with the current state of the paid content web; it seems to be a race to the bottom, with few exceptions (and the exceptions in my experience seem to be mostly enthusiasts doing it not for a living).

Is it not the point that this system will incentivize better content by allowing creators to charge what the market is willing to pay for content?
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