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I still get the WSJ printed paper delivered. Why? No distracting video ads, popovers, cookie warnings, coupon offers, 'subscribe now' pop ups, paywalls, and Taboola clickbait bullshit masquerading as real headlines.

AND I can choose what to read and what to skip, which can’t be done with streaming video. There’s no BREAKING NEWS headlines. There’s no distracting blonde anchor. And if the news is 15 hours old, I don’t care.

There’s nothing in the news that needs my attention within 15 hours after it breaks, except a nuclear missile heading my way.

If I need the news right away, right now, then I read it online.

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Do you look up your stock prices in the WSJ tables? Mako's point isn't that print is obsolete, it's that printed daily snapshots of constantly-updated data are.

(Which I 99% agree with, there are some rare cases when you want old snapshots that haven't been subsequently revised, but does that mean we need to keep printing tables in every copy of every day's paper?)

I suspect the average investor would do better focusing on week old stock data that the knew wasn’t being updated than trying to keep up with the market using sub par quotes.

Assuming the goal is to buy and hold for 10+ years, recent changes should be irrelevant.

> the average investor would do better focusing on week old stock data

Most investors do better not focussing on stock prices at all.

That's me. I log into my brokerage every few weeks to have a quick peak and make any necessary tweaks. And then I log out and don't think of it. I don't keep an app on my phone because I know it would distract me.

That’s kind of my point, though basic due diligence is still appropriate.

Adblock solves all your concerns with the online addition.

That’s the usual reply I get. No, Adblock doesn’t block everything in my list. It does block many of them, but not all. I’m not asking you to change. If you’re happy the way you consume news, great!

Adblock isn’t solving links. Which is the most straightforward way of keeping people.

It doesn’t solve the vast majority of dark and non-dark patterns that the smartest people in the world are employing to keep you on the website.

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