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by m463 2217 days ago
But "advertising" today is a twisted caricature of sponsorship models of years ago.

Advertising, like "location services" has become a two-way surveillance system.

I would love to be able to have a system of payment where we could pay a small amount of money for high-quality journalism? (and do it actually anonymously)
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egonschiele 2217 days ago
Unless someone kickstarts a system like that, which would be insanely high startup cost with insanely high risk, the way to actually get to what you are talking about is for a lot more people to pay for the news, so eventually they can stop relying on advertising.
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c22 2216 days ago
Another way is to boycott news with advertising so that they're forced to find a model that doesn't rely on it. Why is advertising the only choice here? Why do you assume they'll drop that revenue stream when they "get enough subscribers"?
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egonschiele 2216 days ago
Boycotting generally doesn't work. When Trump was elected there was a lot of fuss to boycott companies that did business with Trump, but it had no effect.

> Why do you assume they'll drop that revenue stream when they "get enough subscribers"?

Fair, I don't know if they will. I'm just saying that I don't see a better choice on the table right now. NOT subscribing to the news is not a better choice to me.

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