2 ms·
Apple News Plus is exactly what you describe. The main problem (and reason I cancelled) is that is doesn’t disincentivize clickbait. If you could curate the h
by hedora 3y ago
Apple News Plus is exactly what you describe.
The main problem (and reason I cancelled) is that is doesn’t disincentivize clickbait.
If you could curate the homepage to only include feeds of publications you want to pay, then the incentive would be to create a good stream of articles.
As it is, I got sick of clickbait from a few big publications, so their fucking clickbait headlines showed up, but grayed out with a notice that I’d blocked them.
Also, the recommendation system recommends exponentially more clickbait if you click on a few clickbait articles, then it goes into a spiral of garbage.
- solardev 3y agoIsn't Apple News Plus just subscription news? That's not really the same as pay-per-article, where readers (not the middleman) can choose which individual articles to pay to read -- kinda like how we have pay-to-read scientific journals, but usually at the $50/article range, not <$1.
- bluish29 3y ago> kinda like how we have pay-to-read scientific journals, but usually at the $50/article range, not <$1. Most of the actual payment to read papers are from universities subscriptions funded by taxpayers money. And this particular example is why people will always be skeptical of this model.