Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature

Re:Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature by dang on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @08:26PM (#20630974)

The submitted URL was https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facebook-hit-by-appl..., which was hard-paywalled. But The Information has been unlocking many of their articles for HN readers. I asked if they would do that for this one and they said yes, so everyone who clicks on the link above should be able to read it now.

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Re:Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature by rwc on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @08:30PM (#20631004)

Nice, thank you! And thank you to The Information for sharing quality journalism with the HN community.

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Re:Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature by ballmers_peak on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @08:48PM (#20631059)

No problem!

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Re:Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature by icpmacdo on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:51PM (#20631859)

It seems like a smart win win situation for you. I bet if the WSJ ect. did the same it would drive non trivial growth

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Re:Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature by freehunter on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:39PM (#20631582)

This is pretty nice and I was considering subscribing because of them lifting the paywall but it doesn’t seem like they show the subscription cost until after you’ve given them your email address and created a password? I always assume if you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it. It just seems when you click the “subscribe now” button it would tell you the price of the subscription on the next page.

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Re:Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature by lyctc on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:54PM (#20631649)

The footer's Payment Policy says:

Monthly – $39

Annually – $399

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Re:Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature by tomhoward on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:58AM (#20635306)

> I think they're dramatically overvalualing themselves.

They've been in business for over 5 years and are now in the top 6000 sites in the U.S. [1]. For a deliberately-niche publication, they seem to be doing great.

[1] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/theinformation.com

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Re:Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature by bashwizard on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @01:52AM (#20632275)

> About 3x a Netflix subscription for a single "news" site? I think they're dramatically overvalualing themselves.

The mainstream media in general have been overvalualing themselves for the past decades.

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Re:Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature by misiti3780 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:09PM (#20631169)

it is still pay-walled for me.

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Re:Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature by SalimoS on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:13PM (#20631194)

Use the link in the submission

On another note the reader view on iOS (safari on iPadOS 13 public beta) show only first paragraph

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