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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by na85 on Friday November 03, 2017 @06:24AM (#15618007)
So in other words, site owners are entitled to an income?

Pish posh. Not everything on the web is worth paying for. The content that is worth money will draw subscribers, and content producers are going to just have to live up to the fact that not all of what they produce is worth paying for.

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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by jthewriter on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:57AM (#15620132)
Amen. If people aren't willing to pay for your content, then it's literally not worth paying for. You're still welcome to create it and distribute it for free. If you don't care that much, others probably don't either and we'll all be better off with less crap content swirling around out there.

The ad model has left us mired in a suffocating heap of crap content people claim has "value" because they're able to hack the system and get ad revenue from it. But in reality the content is secondary and just an excuse for the ads.

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