The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free

Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by kmlx on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:50AM (#26326839)

I pay £33 per month for the digital version of the Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/products

If you're into that niche, it's great value for money. But even with those prices, FT still runs ads on their pages.

Unfortunately in today's world, where people get their news "for free" from fb.com or twitter.com or news.google.com, it seems like a huge price to pay.

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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by strangeattractr on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @08:41AM (#26328130)

FT is a great newspaper.

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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by PEJOE on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:27AM (#26339287)

I’ve been a long time reader - My only complaint is that I feel like the number of puns has declined considerably since the Nikkei acquisition.

One favorite was a headline to the effect “Boat builders weather the storm.” I had come to expect multiple puns per article towards the back of the paper. Today I feel lucky if I pick up one or two per paper.

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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by zepto on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:59AM (#26344876)

If you like puns, the Economist is the way to go.

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