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0 pointsxxs8y ago0 comments

>Up to this point in time, everyone had access to news, videos, science articles etc - for free.

I really don't like your definition of 'free'. wikipedia has been relying on donations for quite some time. guardian.co.uk is one of the recent examples asking for donations and working out for them.

>science articles

Ok that has to be a joke, the paywall journals subscriptions are nothing like ads.

Please, don't conflate any pay method with pay wall (which is a pretty good one). If business cannot retain itself w/o breaking the law and has to shove unwanted images/videos/etc. straight in the face, it may as well not exist. The ads have degraded user experience in so bad ways that having a page with little content and 'next' button just to show more ads is pretty much the norm now.

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TomMarius8y ago

You overgeneralize. There are many sites with normal ads than don't disturb the users much. And again - no user experience (on a non-existent site) is better than degraded user experience? Why don't you just stop visiting the site when it doesn't matter to you if the site ceases to exist and let us others do what we want to do?

> breaking the law

No one is breaking the law yet. The law has been changed, and has been changed in a way that destroys businesses and people.

gsich8y ago

So be it. Either make proper ads or don't. Nobody needs that tracking stuff, except shady advertisers.

Or: just make it opt-in.

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