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The moment I see a paywall or even a flavor of heavy popup nonsense presenting some obstacles to content - I move on. Same with ad-infested sites. I have low t
by Trias11 5y ago
The moment I see a paywall or even a flavor of heavy popup nonsense presenting some obstacles to content - I move on.
Same with ad-infested sites.
I have low tolerance to crap.
The more people will do that - the quicker this annoying business model die.
Unless your content will help me to make money (courses, tutorials, specific investment analysis) I aint' spending a penny on you.
In a controversial note - I'd totally pay monthly subscription to some pirating service that extracts content from behind paywall, strip pages from ads and provide access. This will be valuable service.
- realityking 5y agoWhy would you prefer to pay pirates instead of the original creator?
- Trias11 5y agoI don't want to have dozens of different accounts with dozens of different subscriptions on dozens different terms that are changing dozens time per year. Ideally I'd prefer to have a single legit service aggregating dozens of good content sites of my choice and pay monthly flat fee to access. But because each of them are fighting with each other and each of them have their version of infestation with ads, paywalls, popups, content restrictions, accounts requirements - I don't envision any legit service to make peace with all that nonsense. Pirate who will equalize all this into clean subscription based content is going to make a killing and I'll totally pay for it. I am willing to invest into clear message that I don't like their current business model. I also want ads-based sponsorship of anything to die. I'm willing to put money where my mouth is. Let them sort it out. I'd be willing to pay more for legit service to do all above - i just don't envision it happening any time soon.
- brewdad 5y agoI would go buy an Apple News+ subscription right now if I could read it on my laptop. I'm not willing to commit to reading all of my news on my phone.
- Trias11 5y agoI do agree that gigantic entities like Apple can step into this space for some benefits for a customer. They do have lots of "tabloid" content not worth paying for, however there are some interesting bits.