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Note that this, like ad blocking or piracy, also doesn’t help fund the creators.
If you’re indeed “going without” you have no obligation to fund the creators?
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ABP, the original uBlock Origin, saw the writing on the wall a decade ago or whenever and tried to mediate a truce between users and advertisers. ABP would allow through ads that weren't egregious, and users could provide compensation for content they consumed. People however either can't read or can't comprehend the writing on the wall, so instead they rioted against ABP and moved to uBlock Origin. I know there are…
My computer belongs to me and will display the things I tell it to display. If ABP gets in the way of that, then so long ABP.
We all hate adverts, some of us don't like or can't pay. Those who pay, have access to a few publications they enjoy. It would be absurd to pay for all the publications, all the streaming services, but we don't want monopolies either. What could be a solution for this madness?
The real answer is that we need a universal web currency, and a tracker that pays web pages on view. There would be 2 webs. A free web, and a paid web. The paid web would set a cost per page and if you wanted to view the page you would pay the cost. No more month to month flat fee, if you watch non-stop videos, you pay non-stop video prices. No more unlimited anything on the paid web, but the trade off would be that…
The assumption that publishers wouldn't double, or triple dip is absurd. If you've read any recent magazine you'll notice half of it is advertisement. You'd essentially end up with a paid web _and_ ads.
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Micropayments have been tried plenty of times and never succeeded. People say they'd be willing to pay, but they're not.
If it was trivial for me to spend 5 cents for a one off article that someone recommended me, I probably wouldn't mind it at all. Payment processor fees make that essentially impossible, requiring more thought and investment in systems like Flattr to group together the small payments. We need to decouple online payment infrastructure from the duopoly/oligopoly of private corporations that control how and when users ca…
I would like to live in a world where we do pay for what we use but I’m not sure how we get there by now.
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If you’re indeed “going without” you have no obligation to fund the creators?
Is the goal to fund more creators, or just to have fewer people with a supposed obligation to fund creators?
https://archive.ph/ We need to keep making more of these.
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They serve you adverts even if you pay, so that disqualifies them for me.
This. I trialed Apple News+ so I could read WSJ, Atlantic, New Yorker on my iPad via the native iOS app and immediately dropped my subscription when I started seeing ads sandwiched within the articles. Ridiculous.
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> replaced by microtransactions I assume you mean micro payments? Since the dawn of a more commercial internet (80's?) this has been pointed out as the holy grail, for example to replace ads and newspaper subscriptions. So how do you think this could now materialize? In general I think individual financial transactions are getting more expensive, making micro payments even more unlikely then ever before.
Yea, micropayments but people can't keep up with dozens subscriptions. Someone will figure out micropayments sooner or later.
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It's one space where I think some form of microtransaction (in the sub-cents USD) could work: I want to pay per article, not have yet another subscription in the 5-15 USD just because an article interested me. Media consumption habits changed a lot in the Internet-era, we read articles from many different publications, and only very few of those are of interest enough for someone to spend that amount per month. Inste…
I think that argument is begging the question. Media consumption habits changed because that's how the internet was foisted on people - not necesarily because anybody made a choice or were asked what their preferences were. After 30 years on the internet, I've gone full circle. I don't want (and won't) pay per article. 99% of the news articles I read come from a handful of trusted websites (a couple of major news out…
Subscribing to a public library where diversity of content is guaranteed but tracking is not per user is fine.