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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by abecedarius on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:42PM (#19753876)
This is said a lot, very confidently, yet I wonder. Water, gas, and power are basically microtransactions on this model, for many people. Most people don't worry about mental accounting when they turn the tap. How sure are we really that this isn't just something that hasn't worked on a large scale for information yet?
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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by 4ntonius8lock on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:00PM (#19753970)
Such a model could even have a cap: It's $0.001/article up to $20/month. Like... cell phone data use? But without having to sign contracts or pre-payment.

If only a few of the paywall newspapers would implement a direct per article fee, even at $0.10-0.50 I would pay for many articles because I'm too lazy and don't want to pull up a javascript disabled google cache version of the page or fire up a VM... or any of the other techniques SWIM would use to get around paywalls.

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