Is that surprising? I gather this is about retirement villages in the UK; are retirement villages new there?
They aren't new - but they tend to be called things like "integrated retirement communities" or similar.
The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit
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#13I stopped when this modal popped up: UnHerd and our 877 technology partners ask you to consent to the use of cookies to store/access and process personal data on your device.
It provides you the option of rejecting all cookies, which is what I did. Not that I'm defending this, it's all terrible. But how many of us reading this article about to stump up for a paid subscription for Unherd? I'd wager next to none.
Subscription to a random entity I've never heard of before, for one article? Hell no.
50 cents flat to read the whole article, without being harassed by aggressive ads or tracked by 900 different companies? I'd be more than willing.
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#15Pretty sure we’re all being milked for profit. Thats kinda how this whole thing works.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It provides you the option of rejecting all cookies, which is what I did. Not that I'm defending this, it's all terrible. But how many of us reading this article about to stump up for a paid subscription for Unherd? I'd wager next to none.
Subscription to a random entity I've never heard of before, for one article? Hell no. 50 cents flat to read the whole article, without being harassed by aggressive ads or tracked by 900 different companies? I'd be more than willing.
10 years ago a couple of sites I occasionally viewed used "agate", which is now called Axate.
It worked well, I loaded it with about $3 and used it a few times.
Clearly not something publishers are fans of though as it's far easier to carefully select 987 partners to sell your data to.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It provides you the option of rejecting all cookies, which is what I did. Not that I'm defending this, it's all terrible. But how many of us reading this article about to stump up for a paid subscription for Unherd? I'd wager next to none.
Subscription to a random entity I've never heard of before, for one article? Hell no. 50 cents flat to read the whole article, without being harassed by aggressive ads or tracked by 900 different companies? I'd be more than willing.
It's been tried many times and it always fails. How can you know if the article is worth 50c before seeing it? As you said, it's a random entity you've never heard of before.
Why micropayments will never be a thing in journalism:
https://www.cjr.org/opinion/micropayments-subscription-pay-b...
Re: The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit
#19Under capitialism, why would anyone think that this is anything but expected. These living communities are meant to house you, until you die, for a price. You have saved up money to pay for that service until you die. Why would they leave money on the table? Why would they spend any extra on someone who's "going to die anyway". Someone who is barely ambulatory; who has few outside connections. It's the horrible resul…
> Why would they leave money on the table?
Because if they don't, the customer will go to the competition who does.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Subscription to a random entity I've never heard of before, for one article? Hell no. 50 cents flat to read the whole article, without being harassed by aggressive ads or tracked by 900 different companies? I'd be more than willing.
10 years ago a couple of sites I occasionally viewed used "agate", which is now called Axate. https://www.axate.com/ It worked well, I loaded it with about $3 and used it a few times. Clearly not something publishers are fans of though as it's far easier to carefully select 987 partners to sell your data to.
I had hoped that Brave's BAT would get some kind of traction for similar use cases but it seems to be quickly going nowhere.