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The web is being turned into unusable crap by corporations like these. I wish there would be a law against advertising online. Then a lot of news sites and medi
by some_account 9y ago
The web is being turned into unusable crap by corporations like these. I wish there would be a law against advertising online. Then a lot of news sites and media sites would disappear but personally I would be very fine without their crap.
- ChuckMcM 9y agoI observe that for me, as a subscriber, it works really well. I leads to the observation that getting articles from news sites and media sites for 'free' is being made progressively more annoying. At which point people unwilling to subscribe will stop visiting the web site. I would hope that once publications have normalized into subscriber supported services they will no longer be compelled to play these games. But my expectations are low.
- bluGill 9y agoThe problem publications will have is attractive new subscribers. Why would I pay money? Maybe I would really enjoy their quality, maybe not. In the past I'd find out because someone would leave a copy of the newpaper in the lobby and I'd read it. Now someone says this is great, but I've ready many articles somebody said was great that were not (some some seemed great until it was pointed out latter all the research was cleverly made up - they fooled me) It is a tough problem and I don't have an answer.
- jimktrains2 9y ago> law against advertising online OK, now define advertising. (Also, just get an ad blocker and pay for the media you consume, but that's another issue.)