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Re:Dark Patterns by the Boston Globe by mgo on Monday April 25, 2016 @05:13AM (#11563184)
They need to find a business model that isn't based around outright deception to survive. I have zero sympathy for them.
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Re:Dark Patterns by the Boston Globe by Cthulhu_ on Monday April 25, 2016 @06:37AM (#11563420)
The problem with newspapers is that if they paywall all of their articles, they won't get any viewers because nobody knows what kind of articles they write without subscribing. A lot of them have an 'X free articles per month' thing, but since I'm on three different machines, I've never hit that limit unless it was like one or two a month.
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Re:Dark Patterns by the Boston Globe by alphapapa on Monday April 25, 2016 @06:57AM (#11563465)
Two solutions:

1. Make certain articles freely available. They're not stupid--they can figure out which ones will draw people in.

2. Do it LWN-style: the current week's edition requires a subscription, after that it's free. If it's well-written, people will pay to not be a week behind.

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