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Re: Won’t Subscribe

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This will be the onlyfans to bangbros. The model works as long as they are not popular enough to pirate if it even works at all. The cost of subscription is not high for the WP or many for a trial, so it's more likely someone pays $1 to subscribe with a temporary card than to buy the articles. Think of the news articles similar to the commodity of porn. What would you do? Buy one video, or download the whole catalog…

There is an issue of correct evaluation of quality though. You might not think an article was worth paying for as you read it, but then it will give you an edge in some conversation later on. This accrues the more articles you read - maybe each item is not earth-shattering in itself, but together they paint you a picture that actually informs your actions.

Well thats assuming the quality is good. News is so biased I don't feel like paying for it. Usually they tell you what they want me to think. The only publication I like (that has no noticible bias) is al jazeera which is free. The WP sucks and it's the only one off the top of my head that asked me to pay.

Re: Won’t Subscribe

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That won't necessarily help if there's still a "bleed money to XYZ" HTML tag in there.

You mean a piece of text that is easily filtered out?

As easy to filter out as adverts.

Don't suppose that they won't use all the same tricks to inject it after the fact, or from obfuscation.

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