We’re taking down the paywall on qz.com

Re:We’re taking down the paywall on qz.com by zepolen on Sunday April 17, 2022 @11:47AM (#31061652)

Guess they finally realized the amount of revenue from a free site with ads far outweighs the diminishing viewers that pay considering the competition.

I visited QZ daily and stopped ever since the paywall. Ars Technica and The Verge have had the privilege of my eyeballs since then.

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Re:We’re taking down the paywall on qz.com by notreallyserio on Sunday April 17, 2022 @12:45PM (#31062165)

Ars Technica is on my shitlist because they chose to make their site content shift around as you scroll, to make way for ads or email lists or whatever. I don't know why devs and designers at these companies don't fix this.

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Re:We’re taking down the paywall on qz.com by donohoe on Sunday April 17, 2022 @01:55PM (#31062757)

>> I don't know why devs and designers at these companies don't fix this

Because they are not in charge.

The product/ad/business team could "fix" this, and then what would happen is they'd layoff some folks (usually editorial side) a few months later as the revenue drop hits home.

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Re:We’re taking down the paywall on qz.com by notreallyserio on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:36PM (#31063094)

I doubt the product/ad/business team sees any benefit when page content shifts around and Google downranks the site for it.

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Re:We’re taking down the paywall on qz.com by Markoff on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:31AM (#31072053)

I've never noticed this, but it may be due to me not browsing internet without ublock origin, who would do that?

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