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Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

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158 points mooreds | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 02:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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donatj ◴[25 Jun 25 03:15 UTC] No.44373354[source]▶
I was pondering this earlier today while manually prepending archive.is to a pay walled link on my Android phone for the umpteenth time today.

The micro-transaction proposals everyone cried about in the early 2000's would have been so much better than this.

The odds of me paying for a subscription for some tiny local newspaper on the other side of the country are literally nil, but I'd be far more willing toss you a penny or two to read the content of a single article.

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Spivak ◴[25 Jun 25 03:30 UTC] No.44373411[source]▶
Are you sure you want an incentive structure that directly financially rewards rage bait?

At least with ads they want to keep you on the page longer.

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1. Simulacra ◴[25 Jun 25 03:37 UTC] No.44373438[source]▶
fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. If the article from a publication turns out to be junk, I'm never paying for it again. I'll gravitate towards sources I prefer. It would actually be a boon for the major newspapers.