The craziest is paying for state propaganda. Hard no.
F*** Paywalls
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#12lol what do people expect? You say you want a web without ads, now you want a web without paywalls. Sorry, but... pick one. Or watch as the internet collapses.
Exactly, just like I expect to get paid for my work. I want a simple way to pay for all the pay walls in aggregate so I'm not signing up for 27 different subscriptions and I read one article from each source. I'm not against paying, I'm against a huge pile of bullshit management.
How do you feel about Apple news, or similar aggregators?
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#13lol what do people expect? You say you want a web without ads, now you want a web without paywalls. Sorry, but... pick one. Or watch as the internet collapses.
The problem is that paying is almost never anonymous, and there are still many places in the world where consuming the wrong text makes you a quasi-criminal.
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#1420 years of World Wide Web and we still don't have micropayments so we can just pay a penny to read an article.
Why does it take us so long?
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#15lol what do people expect? You say you want a web without ads, now you want a web without paywalls. Sorry, but... pick one. Or watch as the internet collapses.
Most of the internet is duplicative crap, made way more easy to generate via AI now.
One person writes the article and 1000 people copy it.
The only way to solve that would be for Google to be smart enough to only link to original sources and not reposts.
Then at least we are rewarding original thinkers and could concentrate our attention (and money) there.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly, just like I expect to get paid for my work. I want a simple way to pay for all the pay walls in aggregate so I'm not signing up for 27 different subscriptions and I read one article from each source. I'm not against paying, I'm against a huge pile of bullshit management.
How do you feel about Apple news, or similar aggregators?
I haven't used it, but it looks ok. It doesn't fit my usage patterns though.
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#1720 years of World Wide Web and we still don't have micropayments so we can just pay a penny to read an article. Why does it take us so long?
I don’t think the economics of that would work for big publications. Maybe at 5-10 cents per article they would.
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#18How does the tech work? How do they bypass the paywall?
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#19lol what do people expect? You say you want a web without ads, now you want a web without paywalls. Sorry, but... pick one. Or watch as the internet collapses.
The internet will also collapse when everything has turned into ad-optimized clickbait.
There is no shortage of brilliant people who are happy to share their creative work for free. Remember blogs and RSS? They were great. Static pages don't cost anything to host either.
I reject your false choice.
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#20We don't want to pay and we don't want to watch ads - still, we want to consume the content. I mean, I get the sentiment, I also share it to a great degree. But how are websites supposed to stay afloat?