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Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

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157 points mooreds | 4 comments | 25 Jun 25 02:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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protocolture ◴[25 Jun 25 06:43 UTC] No.44374265[source]▶
We really just need a good aggregator.

Because with legislative arrangements like Australias, thats what Facebook and Twitter have become, just with advertising money paying the newsies instead.

Pay some middle man in CASH MONEY to view 100 articles per month.

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1. re-thc ◴[25 Jun 25 06:57 UTC] No.44374343[source]▶
> Because with legislative arrangements like Australias, thats what Facebook and Twitter have become

No, in this example users using Facebook and Twitter are indirectly paying for this regardless of if they read the news there.

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2. protocolture ◴[25 Jun 25 09:33 UTC] No.44375302[source]▶
They were forced to make private arrangements to pay various media companies what they thought their content was making on their platform. In aggregate its roughly the same.
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3. re-thc ◴[25 Jun 25 12:55 UTC] No.44376754[source]▶
> In aggregate its roughly the same.

That's like saying if you pay tax you already pay for everything since your tax dollars is always involved in some part of it.

There's no separate section on Twitter or Facebook with said "news" with a separate charge. If I e.g. pay for a Twitter account I pay for it all.

Unless there's an opt-out, as a user I'm paying for it. Whether I use it or not.

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4. protocolture ◴[25 Jun 25 22:23 UTC] No.44382328{3}[source]▶
>Unless there's an opt-out, as a user I'm paying for it. Whether I use it or not.

I mean you would be "paying" just as much to facey even if the scheme wasn't in place.