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I started reading and got the reg wall again. So many good news sites but they can't expect everyone to create a dozen accounts just to read news and I will not
by badrabbit 7y ago
I started reading and got the reg wall again. So many good news sites but they can't expect everyone to create a dozen accounts just to read news and I will not use social media. I don't mind paying the price of a news paper provided I won't have to use a credit card or provide any trackable artifact.
Maybe a service that sells cards that have 24 hour expiry to access a large number of news sites would be great. I would pay $5/2days,$20/week personally. Simple business model with 10% going to the card maker/distributor and nothing more. Ever. You buy the cards at any store that sells a gift card (including gas stations and thelike). A 6 character alphanum code you can use with any number of sites! No logins,no accounts and everybody wins (except people that want to milk the surveillance cow).
I hope someone does it or I will need to start doing my homework on this.
- nefitty 7y agoThis is a great idea. I think you should pursue it. Maybe run some preliminary user interviews.
- lazerpants 7y agoYou could also just purchase the magazine with cash at a newsstand...
- badrabbit 7y agoI don't want to. You want me to buy 10 news papers in case I find an interesting article posted on some site like HN or reddit? Paper waste (just more trash for me even if I don't care a about the environment). Most papers publish articles daily or every few hours too. What if I want to read an article of a paper circulated in los angeles and I live in florida?