Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer

Post by paxys » Tue, Jun 07, 2022, 2:44 AM UTC

up6w6 wrote: post #93

paxys wrote: post #69

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No useful technology can be kept under the radar. In fact I think ad blocking is a good example of something that got so widespread that it became impossible to block. The "disable your adblocker to read this site" banners are quickly disappearing from the internet now that a critical mass of users has adopted them and companies are realizing they can't give up all that traffic.

Why won't companies give up that traffic if it's not profitable? We are still talking about articles, right?

Post by passivate » Tue, Jun 07, 2022, 4:07 AM UTC

spywaregorilla wrote: post #84

passivate wrote: post #81

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You will come to rely on publisher branding, following the work of specific authors who you know do good work, etc. Its no different than knowing if the food tastes good at the new restaurant.

If you rely on branding then why not just subscribe the the publisher...

Post by javajosh » Tue, Jun 07, 2022, 6:09 AM UTC

dymk wrote: post #99

javajosh wrote: post #55

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Isn't that the 12ft pivot? They can offer people a $10/mo subscription and then give them 100 articles or something spread across all the major publications, and forward that revenue "on demand". It's a classic pirate start: 12ft starts out life by hand subscribing to all the pubs, violating ToS by proxying 3rd party traffic through those subscriptions, demonstrating demand, and then they reach out to publications (c…

Why would any of the existing outlets play nice with a service that got their start pirating the outlets’ content?

Post by nagonago » Tue, Jun 07, 2022, 7:01 AM UTC

samsquire wrote: post #43

I would happily pay for well researched information and that is not on a website overencumbered with advertisements. And has a useable blog like experience. Is this the collective action problem? We cannot have nice news websites due to the profit from subscriptions is too low to afford business so they add adverts everywhere. I think microtransactions could work. But people need to be willing to pay and people aren'…

Post by imtemplain » Tue, Jun 07, 2022, 7:43 AM UTC

towaway15463 wrote: post #30

I’m still waiting for micro transactions. I won’t pay $5 a month for a newspaper I might read one article from but I would gladly pay 25 cents for that one good article. How are there still minimum amounts and fees on transactions when everything is supposedly digitized and networked?