We’re dropping Google Ads

Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by guelo on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:56AM (#14094873)

Pre-internet you could buy the Sunday edition of your city's newspaper for 50 cents. This included dozens of in-depth articles. So yea, probably on the order of a penny per article. Though it was heavily subsidized by car dealer advertisements and the classifieds.

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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:00AM (#14094888)

It was pretty much completely paid by advertising; the purpose of charging readers is because paid circulation numbers is an important metric used by advertisers.

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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by ac29 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:58AM (#14095154)

Yeah, thats pretty much it -- I remember print media too! Quality digital journalism from somewhere like NYT or WP (your opinions may vary) is worth $10/year/sub to me as an occasional reader. Unfortunately, they cost 10x that.

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Re:We’re dropping Google Ads by detaro on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:10AM (#14096535)

How many articles do you read as an "occasional reader"? 10$ distributed over 0.10 to 0.50 per article is 100-20 articles.

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