Stop complaining about paywalls existing.
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Stop complaining about paywalls existing. “These paywalls are attempts to make this dying field viable. When you get personally offended by paywalls, you’re essentially saying we should work for free.” https://bsky.app/profile/laurajedeed.bsky.social/post/3mcdwspcms223
@kottke I’ll take bullshit ads 100/100x over a fkn paywall. I already pay to get online. Refuse to be squeezed for pennies every twist and turn. If that’s your business model, too bad. Circle the bowl with everyone else who thinks that’s a good business model. I don’t get mad, I just close the tab. Guaranteed that similar, if not identical, information exists elsewhere with menial search effort.
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@mycotropic @kottke is quoting what @laurajedeed.bsky.social said, though they should have made that clear. Laura's entire thread is interesting, particularly since in addition to explaining she doesn't make enough money with her #journalism to afford subscriptions, she goes on to offer a couple of ways around paywalls.
Me, my only paywall gripe is those posts that don't tell me before I click I'm gong to hit one.
Thanks for that, I'll go back and reread!
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Stop complaining about paywalls existing. “These paywalls are attempts to make this dying field viable. When you get personally offended by paywalls, you’re essentially saying we should work for free.” https://bsky.app/profile/laurajedeed.bsky.social/post/3mcdwspcms223
@kottke I'm not offended by paywalls. I just don't access the media hidden by them. And in any case, don't presume to tell me not to complain. It's not my fault if your business model doesn't work.
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Stop complaining about paywalls existing. “These paywalls are attempts to make this dying field viable. When you get personally offended by paywalls, you’re essentially saying we should work for free.” https://bsky.app/profile/laurajedeed.bsky.social/post/3mcdwspcms223
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Right! 😀
http://scripting.com/2020/06/23/115824.html?title=anEzpassForNews
We don’t want them to work for free. We want to pay them more money.
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Right! 😀
http://scripting.com/2020/06/23/115824.html?title=anEzpassForNews
We don’t want them to work for free. We want to pay them more money.
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@dgleich @davew @TimHare @kottke
but your idea isn't an EZ pass. people can't choose not to pay once they get to this point in the road. it will charge you based on your license plate or if you stopped, traffic would be a mess.
on the web, you can get info that's good cause people are paying for it. or get bad info cause people are not. enough doing the latter makes society shit.
we need a system where everybody gets good info cause enough of us are paying what we can afford. #PublicPatron
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@dgleich @davew @kottke I have not heard of any work on such a system. The news organizations would have to cooperate, which probably means sketching out the flow in some way where they can clearly see money in it.
My own suspicion is that part of this will have to happen at the HTTP level with the 402 'Payment required' response. So, does that mean implement EZPass in browsers and feed readers, rather than as a separare application?
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Yup. Makes you wonder why you’re even paying.
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@EnigmaRotor maybe maybe…
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@lexfeathers The way the little NO bar instantly filled up with the cute corpo animation had me rolling
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@lilo @notthatdelta @lexfeathers well, it's targeting duckduckgo users... whom i suspect have largely gone to DDG to avoid AI on other search engines. Not saying it doesn't likely reflect a growing public backlash against AI everywhere, but I am saying the target demo is biased
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@stefano 📱
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@lexfeathers I made an AI as a project in college. I know how it works in depth. NO! The fact that AI has become so popular is only because the military is giving our tax money to greedy corporations to keep their monopolistic failures of a carcass afloat because their CEOs have more money than brains. The technology is not useful to the common joe and jane.
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@lexfeathers
"We don't all feel the same way about AI."But 95% of us do apparently. 😆
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I seem to belong to the majority. Astonishing.
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Come imposti la potenza? Se c'è una manopola potrebbe funzionare male quella. Per quello che costa io proverei a partire da lì.
E poi mi fermerei perché con il fai da te sono una chiavica.
