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Why isn't there a "Spotify premium" for news?
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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This. Is. Exactly. What. I. Wish. For. A. Very. Long. Time.
Nowadays every news site has paywalls. I'm willing to pay for good work, but if I pay a single news provider, I'm missing too much. Nobody is willing to pay for every publisher. Even if an article is just a few cents I neither want to be annoyed with the payment process nor do I want to manually keep track of how much I spent for news in a month.
We really need a platform providing a news flat rate, aggregating most larger publishers.
No they can fuck off with the charging me money to read their article thing. I would prefer that they load that shit up to the gills with ads that I then block
I’m not exactly an expert, but I doubt the newspaper gets paid for blocked ads.
Nope you're spot on, of course they don't. Something something ability something something need, gating information except to those who can afford to support their organization should classify them as something other than news media.
Bruh newspapers were never free.
He does have point, though. People who can’t afford to pay for information shouldn’t be left out.
Which is why public libraries get newspaper and periodical subscriptions.
You’re right. To me, libraries are were books live, so I forgot about the newspapers.
I mean they're free now if I pirate the shit out of them
Yeah so when you’re done soiling yourself, the rest of us will be having a grown-up conversation about keeping news sustainable and accessible.
Where does quality news come from if people aren’t willing to pay for it?
Clearly people are willing to pay for it. NYT is profiting 50 million a year.
My buck a week isn't going to have any impact on whether or not they can run the paper, I can't fathom making the argument that someone who can't afford to contribute to the already massively successful paper should have zero access to it.
Ask for fucking donations Wikipedia style, and share the information for free.