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I pay for pinboard, for exactly this reason. I like it enough that I want it to be there tomorrow. Same with LastPass, Fastmail (don't know if they still have f
by a3n 10y ago
I pay for pinboard, for exactly this reason. I like it enough that I want it to be there tomorrow. Same with LastPass, Fastmail (don't know if they still have free accounts), The Guardian and The NYT.
There is much, much more of the web that I use for free, either because they have their own reasons for for not charging at all, or they appear to have enough of a paying base that I'm merely small-guilty but not worried, or because I don't care enough about them to think about the issue.
- freehunter 10y agoI agree with what you're saying, but I stopped paying for the NYT for similar reasons. My subscription isn't enough to keep them in business, so either I'm not paying enough or they're wasting my money. If I pay for something that I could have easily and legally gotten for free and then it's plastered in ads, either charge me more or revisit your business model. I want to see them stay around, yes, but I wasn't getting the value for my money that I expected to get.
- a3n 10y agoAgreed, my sub fee doesn't pay for the NYT's existence. And worse, I block ads. I'm sure I wouldn't pay the actual fee required to support their current operations. I think, or at least hope, that we're in a transition period for large operations that are currently ad supported. If ads didn't suck up so much of my resources, and were benign and didn't track me, then I'd relent. But as it is, ads don't just buy space, they buy people and any information the ad networks can get away from collecting, gleaning or stealing. "Homey don't play dat."