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How long do you expect that to be sustainable?

frankly; dont care. not my problem, i am a consumer. its been sustainable for the last 20 years. the same 'sustainability' arguments were made 10 years ago, yet here we are.

We are in a different place today; arguably worse.

And if everyone ad-blocking is not sustainable then there will be less for you to consume.

I appreciate that and it makes sense from a business perspective. However, many many people outside SV (which is most of the planet) have the same views as myself and will happily 'steal' content. Attempts like DRM are trying to solve the wrong problem.

Rather than trying to shoehorn these 'user pays' models as an alternative to 'advertiser pays', we need a totally new paradigm.

Invent it pls SV

The only reason it's worse is that we've let advertisers keep winning. There's more money in advertising on the web now than there was 20 years ago. If there was no money in it, they'd have gone away and things would be better.

It is your problem when more and more companies start implementing hard-to-get-around "Pay a subscription or unblock ads" walls.

If I don't want to see ads from, e.g. NY Times, but I want to read their content, I could either manage yet-another-subscription, or I could have a plugin that manages the payment for me.

The benefit of the latter is (in theory) a) I don't need to have yet-another-subscription, and b) I don't pay for what I don't read.

The downside is, again, that I don't pay for what I don't read, which in turn leads to click-bait and listicles. However, advertising has already led to that.

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