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by coldpie 3891 days ago
> Those are all subscription or donation (wikipedia) based examples.

That was precisely my point: there are other viable models than ad-supported.

> A lot of sites could never survive on those models or obtain the resources to manage them.

Tough shit.

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> Tough shit.

Not really, it might hurt in the short term but it only gets worse for users to have paywalled/closed access, which will actually lead to more ads and tracking.