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"Probably neither the author nor I would be willing to pay for a subscription without ad subsidies." There are a lot of counter examples to this. Hulu, Spotify
by bootlooped 8y ago
"Probably neither the author nor I would be willing to pay for a subscription without ad subsidies."
There are a lot of counter examples to this. Hulu, Spotify, Ars Technica, YouTube Premium, etc... People are willing and able to pay for ad-free content.
- JasonFruit 8y ago(Few of these are news sources worthy of note.)
- Godel_unicode 8y agoWhy do you think news consumers are different than YouTube consumers?
- JasonFruit 8y agoBecause there's a difference between reading professionally produced news and watching contributed videos? Is there a reason you think they are the same?
- bootlooped 8y agoI think once it's shown that people are generally willing to pay for the services they use to be ad-free the onus goes back to you to prove why news is a special case to which that trend does not apply. Otherwise we get into an argument black hole where you could infinitely claim the things in question were different than the counter-examples given.
- JasonFruit 8y agoI suppose you are allowed to think that, sure. On my part, I promise no black holes. Peace.