This article isn’t behind a paywall, you just have to make an account.
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dan1101@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The news sites are trying to have it both ways. Serving the news articles to visitors and then covering them up with a paywall with browser tricks.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
silence7@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I’m a bit sympathetic to them — they do need to get paid to keep operating, and ads don’t cover the cost of providing news anymore
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ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 days ago
I would put that more on the ad networks, if the ads were related to the article, it may generate a few more clicks. The ads are completely random and built off a profile they assume would contain relevant info about me… but it doesn’t really seem to be accurate (this is kind of by my own choosing though).
Instead articles about rebuilding cars should have ads related to perhaps rebuilding cars and not some fucking nutritional supplement or some other unrelated thing.
silence7@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Better ad targeting does make ads more valuable…but because only Google and Facebook have the visibility and ML to do it effectively, they wound up with all the add revenue. Everybody else ended up with a few pennies
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Owners win.
If have a plot of land with some cherry trees on it, I can get a landless person to pick most of them for free.
I make an offer “for every 100 pounds/kilos of cherries you pick for me, I’ll let you keep 1”. If the person who receives such an offer has no land of their own, the have to agree to avoid starvation.
That’s why our system needs a huge class of the landless, resourceless, and assetless people. Then for the priveledge of touching a privatized resource you have accept the privateer’s conditions.
Fencing off resources and protecting the fence by the threat of death is how this scam works. And it is impossible to fix this societal problem by simply trading more and better as an individual. The ruleset of the game is tuned for mass free energy extraction from the assetless class at the macro level.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
So you feel sorry for the fact they are legacy industry that refuses to adapt?