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by _wp3r 5224 days ago
I thought about this the other day. When i recently moved i decided to get the paper delivered. It was a nice idea but ended up being TOTALLY overwhelming. The amount of time required to sift through and consume only a small part of the paper is insane. I had only payed some nominal fee 10 dollars for 3 months or something. But i had to call it quits after 2 months. Every paper was 50% adverts and I had unread papers piled everywhere they were taking over.

The romance of the paper is just that. A thing of fiction, because in reality it is just voluntarily delivered spam.

1 comments

Not entirely fiction. Newspapers used to have fewer ads.
It is kinda sad that their primary revenue stream has become(imo) their biggest negative trait.