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Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

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157 points mooreds | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 02:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.269s | source
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postexitus ◴[25 Jun 25 08:46 UTC] No.44375000[source]▶
It would be interesting to compare this with The Guardian's model - it's not paywalled, but you are encouraged to donate / subscribe (similar to Wikipedia). I have not only subscribed to digital edition, but also included physical delivery later. I think people would be more willing to pay after receiving a knowledge service, seeing the quality and being satisfied with it.
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1. wkat4242 ◴[26 Jun 25 01:24 UTC] No.44383399[source]▶
Yes I subscribed too in the past. Few good news sources that are as aligned with me. I dropped them during Brexit though, i got sick of the topic. And never subscribed physically, too difficult and annoying when not living in the UK.

But Brexit moved me from a slight "like" of the UK to a definite "dislike" and I've cut most of my ties with it.

The guardian suffered. I might have stayed if they'd made a Brexit-news-free front-page but that must have been a sensitive topic inside the UK. Sometimes their front page was half Brexit news and I was so sick of it.