I started to notice that more sites are turning into paywalls, and I don’t like that and would prefer ads over subscriptions.

I am curious, what does the general community think about that?

  • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
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    14 days ago

    I do this with Apple News. Not sure if anything like it exists, but what worries me is Apple cut their News development staff recently which makes me think people (at least Apple users) don’t value journalism enough to support it.

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      14 days ago

      Apple is worth THREE AND A HALF TRILLION DOLLARS!!!

      Say that again. Three and a half trillion dollars.

      They have cash-on-hand reserves of in excess of $60bn. They could give every single employee $200,000 and still have half of it in the bank.

      Tim Cook is a relative pauper in the CEO game, with a net worth upwards of two billion. He could personally pay a team of a three thousand reporters with full benefits and remain a billionaire.

      It’s not people refusing to pay for journalism, it’s robber barons refusing to pay journalists.