pay walls on news paper sites - a problem not just for me?

[peacefan]

i run an RSS website. i collect news article snippets posted through websites' RSS links automatically, and display them in an attractive interface.
so far so good, until those newspapers start putting the content of these articles behind pay walls, something that is happening to more and more newspapers.
ultimately, this will hurt those newspapers' business, because now i'm faced with the choice of stopping the collection of new snippets from their RSS pages.

so i have a different business model to suggest for those news papers, and i'd like some feedback on this please.

instead of a pay wall, just implement custom per-article ads (and an ad-blocking detection javascript).
when played right, the returns could be even higher than a subscription!

 

[Captain Caveman]

i run an RSS website. i collect news article snippets posted through websites' RSS links automatically, and display them in an attractive interface.
so far so good, until those newspapers start putting the content of these articles behind pay walls, something that is happening to more and more newspapers.
ultimately, this will hurt those newspapers' business, because now i'm faced with the choice of stopping the collection of new snippets from their RSS pages.

so i have a different business model to suggest for those news papers, and i'd like some feedback on this please.

instead of a pay wall, just implement custom per-article ads (and an ad-blocking detection javascript).
when played right, the returns could be even higher than a subscription!

Me as a web page consumer/customer, I'm finding more and more pages/sites swamped with adverts, banners, pop ups, slide shows etc.. to the point I click off their site and go elsewhere. I always avoided paywall sites until the thread in feedback using archive.is, now I can get around most paywalls.

Also, if you have to accept cookies to use a site, I just click off the web site and go elsewhere.

 

[luiza]

What do you expect the corrupt MSM to do ?

Applaud you and send you money for exposing them ?

 

[peacefan]

What do you expect the corrupt MSM to do ?

i'd say at this point, they're mostly misguided by commercial interests, and not corrupt.

Applaud you and send you money for exposing them ?

a fundamental change in business model would be great

 

[gipper]

i run an RSS website. i collect news article snippets posted through websites' RSS links automatically, and display them in an attractive interface.
so far so good, until those newspapers start putting the content of these articles behind pay walls, something that is happening to more and more newspapers.
ultimately, this will hurt those newspapers' business, because now i'm faced with the choice of stopping the collection of new snippets from their RSS pages.

so i have a different business model to suggest for those news papers, and i'd like some feedback on this please.

instead of a pay wall, just implement custom per-article ads (and an ad-blocking detection javascript).
when played right, the returns could be even higher than a subscription!

Why bother? It’s all propaganda.

 

[DudleySmith]

lol why do people think private news services should be free? The usual spoiled bourgeois brat sense of entitlement?

 

[Grumblenuts]

paywall
newspaper
web site or website

 

[petro]

Soon as the paywall comes up, or the latest, wanting an email address, I just move on.
Those sites are garbage.

 

[1srelluc]

Even papers in podunk locations are doing it.

The other day I tried posting an article from the sparsely populated county next to ours and gave up, every paper that carried the same article was a paywall.

It's like they all want to go out of business.....Hell their papers are so thin now they are about to disappear.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

It is shocking how many people want everything to be free.

Did you people whine when you had to pay for a newspaper before the web?

 

[Missourian]

Also, if you have to accept cookies to use a site, I just click off the web site and go elsewhere.

I can help you with that.

Download the Brave browser.

Even if you don't use it all the time (and I usually do)...when you get to a site the asks for cookies and you're in Chrome let's say...go to the menu of the browser and click share...sometimes you have to click the "more" button after that to see all the options...then Brave.

Since Brave won't save cookies...the websites don't even ask.

It's got a built in adblocker too.

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[Harpy Eagle]

Me as a web page consumer/customer, I'm finding more and more pages/sites swamped with adverts, banners, pop ups, slide shows etc.. to the point I click off their site and go elsewhere. I always avoided paywall sites until the thread in feedback using archive.is, now I can get around most paywalls.

Also, if you have to accept cookies to use a site, I just click off the web site and go elsewhere.

why do cookies scare you so?

 

[Captain Caveman]

why do cookies scare you so?

They don't scare me, if they want my browsing information etc.. I'll sell it to them. Why do you feel you should give information away free of charge?