| So ... software and content are the same thing? SaaS is the same as an article? - Does reading The Baffler trap you in its ecosystem? If you cancel The Baffler do you lose functionality? - If The Baffler closes up shop because it was bought by a larger newsletter does it brick any of your devices? - I turned uBlock off for this page (it was blocking 6 things) and there are no ads. Can you say the same thing for Netflix or fricking Windows? - Does The Baffler take what you give it and resell it because its 5,000 word privacy policy which you didn't read but had to agree to says it can? - Will The Baffler's third rate security practices release your identity and those of your customers to private auctions on the dark web? This is how the article supports itself. Looks like it's about $5 per article. Still though it's interesting how you put it. In a period where everybody expects web content for free, we're paying literally trillions to subscribe to software products. As somebody who works for a content organization I'm now asking myself what aspects of the SaSS model can we take up to get people to pay our writers and editors to continue producing local news? I guess we just need to figure out what content people are keeping in spreadsheets. |