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dinkleberg | 1 month ago

This is a tangent, but man the world of traditional news sites must be really suffering. I've been noticing more and more that have this model where you can't see anything until you pay up. I have to assume they've tested it and found this approach works best, but I'm not signing up for your newspaper before I can even see the quality of the journalism. Back with print newspapers you could just buy a copy before getting a subscription. Now to get a taste you've got to pay for the $1 trial which will auto-convert into a $75/mo subscription. And I wouldn't be surprised to learn that to cancel that trial requires a phone call to a service rep.

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UltraSane|1 month ago

A lot of sights actually use very sophisticated prediction models to decide on what users and when to show paywalls.