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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by rad_gruchalski on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:25AM (#26326318)
You can't survive on a burger a week and you will eat other food too between your $5 burgers. So maybe it's worth spending the $4 / week covering "most of the other food" you gotta eat anyway.
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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by docdeek on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:38AM (#26326391)
It’s not an exact analogy, that’s for sure.

Maybe I could save it by asking where am I likely to get a better quality burger: the place that charges me $5 a week just for burgers, or the one that charges me only $4 a week AND I get a whole lot of other stuff I don’t like but could still consume

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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by HPsquared on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:24AM (#26326680)
Paying for news has become something of a "luxury" product.

In these conditions, quality and satisfaction of a niche is more important than quantity (though quantity has a quality of its own)

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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by dotancohen on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:17AM (#26329398)
It always has been.

Source: I'm over the hill. now get off my lawn.

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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by jrumbut on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @06:54AM (#26327248)
And, to strain the metaphor further, most of the $5 burger makers are just repackaging the $4 burgers since the $4 burger makers are the ones who gather the ingredients.
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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by nxpnsv on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:23AM (#26326679)
Depends on the size of the burger I guess :D
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