TechAltarI would really like having one single subscription that would let me jump through every major publication's paywall. I'd be willing to pay $30+ a month, but it would have to cover all. I'd love to pay for journalism, but it just doesn't make sense to subscribe to any one particular paper when the reporting is spread out over hundreds of them
plink212Is that not pressreader.com that they always advertise on planes? Also in Canada and the UK a lot of pay news sites are free via your local library
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Homo Particeps@Techaltar the solution there could be some kind of pay-per-article that you give a $30 budget each month, but everything is a subscription
Jeroen@irina @Techaltar it used to exist in the Netherlands (for news that was also on paper) It would charge you per article if you read it for more than 15 seconds or so. But they changed their business model to … you guessed it subscriptions! I still think it has its own niche.
Alex Chapman@Techaltar Oh I agree, its bad enough having to pay for everything else lol.
Garret Polk (masked)@Techaltar The Netflix of journalism.
Philip Mallegol-Hansen@Techaltar I’d love to live in a world where my browser could dole out money to websites on my behalf based on like a percentage of my time spent on each site or whatever.
I’d happily put even $100/month into a general “Support the sites I visit” bucket.
Geniusak@philip @Techaltar there's been two attempts at that I've used.
There was scroll but it got bought by Twitter (pre musk) and they did nothing with it
There was another whose name I don't remember, they shut down to focus on the web monetization protocol.
As an aside, time alone is a poor metric, thats how you get YouTube like long drawn out content
@Geniusak @Techaltar For sure. Definitely a 30 second back of the napkin suggestion, not the one I think anyone should actually implement.
Hard to know *what* that algorithm should be without incentivizing *some* sort of gamification.
Susanna the Artist 🌻@Techaltar Apple News does this. But you have to read it all in their app.
atanasoff@Techaltar We've had a start-up Critix in Finland and tried to implement something like this.
Finland have many local newspapers that are behind paywall, so we tried to talk with the couple of big companies who actually own these newspapers, but they were very uninterested.
My local newspaper online edition cost 15€ per month, which i think is mental.
There was one company from Sweden doing "pay per article", and that was interesting as well.
LevkaMany, if not most, paywalls can be circumvented via the Wayback Machine or archive.ph
Bastian@LevZadov @Techaltar wayback machine sure, but archive.ph (which is archive.today) is quite sus. They've used their users to ddos other websites, and changed things after archiving (according to Wikipedia editors), which is ... not the point of an archive
@Techaltar I know oft LexisNexis Newsdesk and Dow Jones Factiva that do this. But I dont know their pricing model, its not transparent to the public Internet.
With both oft them I was able to read any paywalled article I tried.
With both oft them I was able to read any paywalled article I tried.
Iain Cuthbertson@Techaltar would https://ground.news be a step in the right direction?
Not a subscriber myself (yet) so I don't know how much it would cover your interests.
Not a subscriber myself (yet) so I don't know how much it would cover your interests.
Claus Cramon Houmann@Techaltar @gunstick subscription to non billionaire owned media
DidekHow about a private, without account, quick way to pay small amount for the access to the article? (No blockchain involved)
Tizian 「ティツィアーン」@Techaltar You mean like Nebula for journalism: access to all, pay what consumed. 
@Techaltar i'm smelling an opportunity here, looking forward to see your new project 😉
@Techaltar I agree that would be nice. It might be quit a bit more expensive than $30 though considering eg the economist charges €39 for a monthly subscription. I have subscriptions to 4 news publications but still bust paywalls every chance I get because it is just impossible for me to pay everyone a monthly.
@RedFreljordian yeah I would be willing to accept having a limited number of articles per week for each publication or sth to bring the cost down
@Techaltar That does seem like a reasonable compromise between cost and accessibility