Not the person you are replying to, but it's not up to me to determine what the best business model is for a company. My "job" with respect to info providers he

Not the person you are replying to, but it's not up to me to determine what the best business model is for a company. My "job" with respect to info providers here is to consume what I like on an open protocol. If I find a website that interests me enough, by itself, to subscribe to it then maybe I would. But none of them have, not even any of the big ones. If someone provided a system where I could tip a website for an article or other piece of media I like, I'd do that. But nobody seems to know how to make micro-transactions work that I can see. So if advertising is unwanted, and subscriptions to individual websites on the internet isn't working either, then maybe they should get more creative. I had a lot of fun on old forums before this mess started, so if we revert to that so be it.