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Comment by cyborgx7 | Hacker News Reader

Off-topic: This is an article I would consider spending 1-3 dollars to read. But the only option for me is to subscribe. Therefore I won't be reading it and they won't get my money. I know that on demand paying for articles hasn't been made to work yet. But it still feels like there is a potential here that isn't being serviced.

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There is a Dutch company called Blendle[0] that has figured this out pretty well locally, and also has a BETA program running in the United States[1]. Articles are often much cheaper than 1-3 dollars, I don't recall paying more than 1 eur. They also combat clickbait titles and intros by providing a refund when the article turns out lousy.

[0]: https://blendle.com/ [1]: https://launch.blendle.com/

Just signed up for it. It looks good, but I am seeing a bunch of clickbait. Already had to use the refund feature once.

But the bigger problem is that I generally come to articles through social media or links from friends. Do I have to search for every article to see if they released it on Blendle? Also, a lot of them seem to change titles so that is actually pretty difficult.

If they had to change their title to not be clickbait for Blendle, maybe just assume it's a clickbait article

Wait, I thought Blendle recently switched from pay-per-article to a subscription model (in which you only get to read selected articles)?

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