Dan GoodinDear readers. If you're not willing to support the families of those you want to read then we regretfully will be preventing you from obtaining our work for free.
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Niklas Goerke@dangoodin often, I would be very much willing to pay a small fee to be able to read an article. Just like I would buy a printed magazine. I just can’t pay for a subscription for all of the news outlets.
It would be awesome if you could provide a simple „pay 2,50 € to access this article“ process.
yes, agreed. I run into this predicament multiple times per day. Interesting that micro payments has been one of the Internet's longest running unsolved problems.
Manoj Kasichainula@dangoodin @Niklas There was (at least from my perspective as a reader) a good solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_(web_service) . Twitter (pre-Elon) chewed them up.
But also, some publications decided to keep requiring a paywall and just killed the ads behind said paywall, or maybe the other way around, I forget. It was easily defeated by ad-blockers, regardless. A version that actually paid for reading the site without ads or tracking (at higher expense) would be welcome.