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Yeah I don't think anyone has a solution as to what to do with online publications. It's a rock and a hard place situation. Users don't want to pay/be tracked a
by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Yeah I don't think anyone has a solution as to what to do with online publications. It's a rock and a hard place situation. Users don't want to pay/be tracked and want quality content, and publishers either track the fuck out of users, or regretfully paywall stuff and lose a massive chunk of eyeballs. Brave at least is trying with their BAT stuff, but I don't think it's their main focus anymore, especially as they're releasing new products all the time now.
- Joker_vD 5y ago> I don't think anyone has a solution as to what to do with online publications Subsidize it, and even not necessarily by the government. Think of it as a non-profit run/owned by someone who makes money on something else, it's not like every single human activity has to be organized from the commercial motivation for it to be decently performed.
- leephillips 5y agoThere are a number of examples of this, including from before the web. National Review was run at a loss for years, subsidized by William F. Buckley Jr.
- BizarroLand 5y agoOnline newspapers could solve this issue by directly (onsite) hosting ads for advertisers based on news post content with no tracking. You know, like they did from the mid 1800's until the late 2000s, or by following the crunchyroll system of paying people getting access to content before the free ad-funded tier does.