Ironically The Economist shows me ads on the app despite paying 28.99 euros a month in subscription fees
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Welcome to the ad-free internet
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#112Does anyone know why there doesn't exist a micro-transaction capability to buy one marginal ad-free item at a time? E.g. buy just this Economist article for $0.25 rather than subscribing for the whole month? I know there are significant issues with micro-transaction cost but I figure you could set up a little token service with minimum cash-in and cash-out amounts (say $5). Do companies like the Economist crunch the…
Flattr did this, I saw a few sites with it enabled around when it launched, in 2010 apparently. If i remember you could click a link on an article that had it enabled, which was recorded. Then, weekly/monthly funds were distributed from a pool you had added to the service, to get around the cost of making individual micro payments.
Apparently it's now owned by Adblock Plus and is hooked in to their compensation thing.
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#113https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/th...
> the Norwegian Data Protection Authority strongly doubts that Meta's proposed ‘consent’ mechanism, often dubbed ‘pay or okay’, complies with the GDPR. The EDPB’s decision is therefore important to avoid Meta's infringement continuing while the company is exploring its options.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/metas_eu_privacy_fee_...
> noyb (None Of Your Business) has filed a data protection complaint against Meta over the "Pay or Okay" subscription model
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#114Doesn't this end up spiralling, though? As we've seen with Netflix, nothing stops the service from adding ads to a subscription feed. Sooner or later the pressure to grow revenues is going to force Meta to do ads on their subscription accounts (especially since they can charge a premium on those ads). Then they introduce "premium" subscription accounts with no ads, then those get ads, then there's the "excelsior" sub…
There is always piracy as ground truth and I'm content with it.
How do you pirate a social media product though?
Re: Welcome to the ad-free internet
#115Does anyone know why there doesn't exist a micro-transaction capability to buy one marginal ad-free item at a time? E.g. buy just this Economist article for $0.25 rather than subscribing for the whole month? I know there are significant issues with micro-transaction cost but I figure you could set up a little token service with minimum cash-in and cash-out amounts (say $5). Do companies like the Economist crunch the…
I won't pay $0.25 for an article that's likely to be clickbait. I won't spend time fighting a refund on those $0.25 either. I'll just go elsewhere.
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#116There’s this local newspaper. While I’m on a logged in account (EDIT: paid) the ads seem to take up at least 25% screen real estate at all times. The best ones are the ones that graciously show up while scrolling, dynamically—it’s like wathing TV (again)! My favorite place though is the gym. Which costs a lot when you just go there to use frickin’ weights and cardio equipment. LCD screens with ads running (for local businesses—how nice and cozy) so that your peripheral vision gets distracted by irrelevant stimuli (for some reason I automatically have to look when it seems like something is “happening” all of a sudden, an urge I have to repress).
I wonder if this ad/paid dichotomy is some tech startup fairy tale. Like, [we burnt capital on building an effective monopoly]^W [gave away our product for free] but now the [entitled lusers]^W [users]^W don’t want to pay 10$ a month in order to be on a social network that mostly only their one-generation-or-older relatives are daily active on.
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#117Re: Welcome to the ad-free internet
#118There is no world in which corporations will resist the temptation to serve ads to people who have demonstrated to both invest time and money in their platform.
Don't worry, you will only get the best artisanal premium ads, you will learn to love them [1].
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you pirate a social media product though?
Does meeting people face to face and talking about what happened in your lives count as "pirating facebook"? ;-)
haha not yet.
2043: you have been fined for having an unlicensed social activity. Please ensure all future social activity is properly arranged via Facebook groups or a registered chat application.
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#120Does Netflix has ads? Why does it show a little dark blue?