With all the technology at our disposal, why can no one build a system whereby people can read occasional articles at most websites by paying a penny or something reasonable? I can't subscribe to 100,000 different newspapers.
Disable JS on nytimes.com (i use the Ublock Origin extension for this) and it works fine.
To make the company what I pay now for a subscription, that would come out to around $6.00 an article. I'm not sure I'd press that $6.00 to read button very often.
Your scheme would broaden the total number of readers, but I'm unsure that the company would actually do well under it.
In the long-term, I think this is going to damage the quality of information conducting through our society, and maybe even worsen the propaganda problem that we're currently facing.
There’s coordinated campaigns when issues pop up. When the former president gets himself in trouble, I basically get an early warning when my father in law is upset about some “woke” school/mayor/etc doing something outrageous.
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