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Why not subscriptions ?
by thatfrenchguy 10y ago
Why not subscriptions ?
- aaron695 10y agoSearch 'paywall' on HN comments.
- mrweasel 10y agoThe "issue" is that for subscriptions to work, you'd have to provide a worse service, because you'd have to require people to login. I honestly don't mind pay for some sites, but I do mind that I have to login. Currently I believe that the people who don't mind dealing with ads are getting a better service, than the people paying for subscriptions directly.
- thatfrenchguy 10y ago"you'd have to require people to login" I can't imagine it being that much of a problem in days of password managers and cookies... "Currently I believe that the people who don't mind dealing with ads are getting a better service, than the people paying for subscriptions directly." I subscribe to a bunch of newspapers (and I'm a 20-something tech guy), I don't really mind logging once when I'm on a new computer/phone/whatever, it's the same issue as google / facebook / twitter / ...