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How do you propose content producers earn their income, if you think neither ads nor paywalls are acceptable?
by realityking 10y ago
How do you propose content producers earn their income, if you think neither ads nor paywalls are acceptable?
- bweitzman 10y agoThere's nothing wrong with paywalls and ads. It's annoying when sites with paywalls are posted to public forums since any number of people are not going to be able to join the discussion, but this isn't the site's fault. I think sometimes people forget that they pay for certain websites when they submit. Plus it turns the forum into an advertisement which is not really the intended use. Likewise, ads are fine in theory but the implementation is absolutely horrible.
- alkonaut 10y agoAds are fine, "ad networks" are (often) evil. Content producers couldself-host ads without tracking and do tgeir own ad sales and no one will block them. Paywalls are also fine. Content producers choice. It's (un-annotated) links to paywalled content that is annoying.
- john_reel 10y agoReddit, Mozilla, and Project Wonderful have pulled this off well.