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Re:The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to... by crazygringo on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:40PM (#16443758)
It's not. It's hard to get people to pay for a single site.

I read WSJ when I come across links from Hacker News, maybe 10x/month. I'm not gonna pay for that. I already pay for the NYT, the Economist and the New Yorker.

What's a shame is that there's no way for me to pay a set monthly fee for "news" and have that automatically proportioned among the sites I actually visit each month.

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Re:The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to... by aventrix on Friday February 23, 2018 @01:58AM (#16444730)
Hmm, a Netflix for news.

Perhaps you would end up with the same issue as Netflix where content providers raise their prices to the point that the aggregator would develop their own content in-house.

Or you could do Spotify for news, and dole out a percentage of the monthly subscription to publications based on the number of articles read.

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Re:The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to... by wmeredith on Saturday February 24, 2018 @11:32PM (#16457145)
The Brave web browser is trying to do something like this with its Basic Attention Token. It’s pretty sharp.
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