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Re: Never knew news websites could survive without ads

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As someone else has said it is publicly funded, it's the same with Australia's ABC news [1]. When you watch it on TV, I guess there are ads for its own shows but other than that they are not allowed run ads. Funnily there are ads shown on its stories on apple news, I always wondered if that was in some violation of the Australia Broadcasting Corporation Act [2]. [1]: https://www.abc.net.au [2]: https://www.legislatio…

heyo! you responded to a comment I made two months ago complimenting my personal site ( https://concourse.codes & https://borice.exposed ) and asking if I made the pixel art myself. I'm not sure how HackerNews notifications work so I'm just seeing it and wanted to say thank you, and also no, sadly, I did not make the pixel art myself. I am learning how as a separate endeavor, but in this case I fine-tuned midjourney…

This reply was unexpected but a nice surprise :)

I remember your site! I really like the consistent visual language, even if you didn't make the pixel art, at the very least they go well with your site. I entered my email on your other site, feel free to reach out or whatever, also this is my site https://akst.io

Hope you're doing well as well!

Re: Never knew news websites could survive without ads

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post #6

As someone else has said it is publicly funded, it's the same with Australia's ABC news [1]. When you watch it on TV, I guess there are ads for its own shows but other than that they are not allowed run ads. Funnily there are ads shown on its stories on apple news, I always wondered if that was in some violation of the Australia Broadcasting Corporation Act [2]. [1]: https://www.abc.net.au [2]: https://www.legislatio…

Yeah, I hope npr is still funded amidst the funding cut by the government.

Re: Never knew news websites could survive without ads

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post #3

Also: [1] https://lite.cnn.com/ [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news (at least when viewed from the UK)

The mobile version of BBC has ton of ads

When viewed from in the UK?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/questions/behind-the-scenes/ad...

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