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I get stock quotes with 15 minute delay. If I want real time, I am charged 2 cents. At the end of the month all the 2 cent charges are summed and added to my mo

I get stock quotes with 15 minute delay. If I want real time, I am charged 2 cents. At the end of the month all the 2 cent charges are summed and added to my monthly fee. News sites could easily do something similar

wppick 6y ago
Yes, and as a 3rd party service would be great too. I can login with Facebook, Google, etc. It would be great if I can just pay 1/2 cent to read 1 article vs signing up for monthly or yearly subscriptions. And I can choose pay with service a, service b or service c. They should all adhere to a single standard so any new service can just plug into it. Why should I have to choose only between ads or some big monthly/yearly subscription?
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GekkePrutser 6y ago
But people into finance are already pretty much into money... I still view the internet as something that should be free and any transaction pisses me off. No matter how cheap it is I will avoid having to pay unless one of the conditions are met: - I really need the article in question - It's something substantial that I really think is worth money (e.g. a book) For example, if I spend 2 cent on an article that turns out to be clickbait I will be royally pissed. Which I acknowledge is totally absurd because 2 cents affects my financial situation in no way whatsoever. But this is not how it feels to me. Logically I shouldn't even think about it at all, it's not worth even thinking about. But this is not how this works. I'm pretty sure that people dealing with stocks are generally less bothered having to deal in stuff because they are in the middle of the economic model (it makes them money as well as takes it) whereas I'm purely at the end of it, only spending.
- aurizon 6y ago
  Yes, It would be nice to enslave a few AI's to run a free web, but come the revolution when they control the food synthesizers.... I know the stock quote company pays a fee to get real time quotes(RTQ) (versus the 15 minute delayed free quotes), so it is fair for me to pay a fractional fee. In the old day I would phone the broker and he was get me the RTQ and I could also get the bid-ask array. Now lots faster and easier. The phone brokers got old and died off, mush like the classified ads were mugged by Craigslist and the internet killed display advertising. These were all paid, the papers were paid, you want free - eat some more ads. I do not pay for clickbait. I would hit the roof if I clicked for a RTQ and got an ad how to get rid of my wrinkles or to manscape my groin - so no, these 2 cents fees will get the real goods clicked from the snippet that lets you decide if you can spare the 2 cents. If you have no job, just spending, the library helps...

wppick 6y ago

Yes, and as a 3rd party service would be great too. I can login with Facebook, Google, etc. It would be great if I can just pay 1/2 cent to read 1 article vs signing up for monthly or yearly subscriptions. And I can choose pay with service a, service b or service c. They should all adhere to a single standard so any new service can just plug into it. Why should I have to choose only between ads or some big monthly/yearly subscription?

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GekkePrutser 6y ago

But people into finance are already pretty much into money... I still view the internet as something that should be free and any transaction pisses me off. No matter how cheap it is I will avoid having to pay unless one of the conditions are met: - I really need the article in question - It's something substantial that I really think is worth money (e.g. a book) For example, if I spend 2 cent on an article that turns out to be clickbait I will be royally pissed. Which I acknowledge is totally absurd because 2 cents affects my financial situation in no way whatsoever. But this is not how it feels to me. Logically I shouldn't even think about it at all, it's not worth even thinking about. But this is not how this works. I'm pretty sure that people dealing with stocks are generally less bothered having to deal in stuff because they are in the middle of the economic model (it makes them money as well as takes it) whereas I'm purely at the end of it, only spending.

aurizon 6y ago
Yes, It would be nice to enslave a few AI's to run a free web, but come the revolution when they control the food synthesizers.... I know the stock quote company pays a fee to get real time quotes(RTQ) (versus the 15 minute delayed free quotes), so it is fair for me to pay a fractional fee. In the old day I would phone the broker and he was get me the RTQ and I could also get the bid-ask array. Now lots faster and easier. The phone brokers got old and died off, mush like the classified ads were mugged by Craigslist and the internet killed display advertising. These were all paid, the papers were paid, you want free - eat some more ads. I do not pay for clickbait. I would hit the roof if I clicked for a RTQ and got an ad how to get rid of my wrinkles or to manscape my groin - so no, these 2 cents fees will get the real goods clicked from the snippet that lets you decide if you can spare the 2 cents. If you have no job, just spending, the library helps...