Do you prefer ads or paywalls? (feddit.org)

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I started to notice that more sites are turning into paywalls, and I don't like that and would prefer ads over subscriptions.

I am curious, what does the general community think about that?

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[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

You realize that if newspapers offered a federated service (pay once, you get them all), they'd make money hand over fist?

But noooo...each newspaper wants you to pay.

I'd pay upwards of $20 a month if that guaranteed me access to the major newspapers (NYT, WaPo, LA Times, etc.) and my local one with one subscription.

[-] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 12 hours ago

I do this with Apple News. Not sure if anything like it exists, but what worries me is Apple cut their News development staff recently which makes me think people (at least Apple users) don’t value journalism enough to support it.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Apple is worth THREE AND A HALF TRILLION DOLLARS!!!

Say that again. Three and a half trillion dollars.

They have cash-on-hand reserves of in excess of $60bn. They could give every single employee $200,000 and still have half of it in the bank.

Tim Cook is a relative pauper in the CEO game, with a net worth upwards of two billion. He could personally pay a team of a three thousand reporters with full benefits and remain a billionaire.

It's not people refusing to pay for journalism, it's robber barons refusing to pay journalists.

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago

Your local library might give you free digital access to most (or all) of those, if you haven’t checked.

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

They do, I use it, and it's local. National/international could have something similar, but don't.

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I’m not saying it’s a bad idea but it’s interesting how similar that is to cable TV.

Of course, cable TV was largely ad-free at first then you ended up paying for it and getting ads.

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