And not just any paywall, a NINETY-NINE CANADIAN DOLLARS PER MONTH ONE. Granted the first month is a single dollar, but still, that’s a grand total of C$1090 A YEAR.
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linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A link to an article about enshittification that’s just a solid paywall…
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
csolisr@communities.azkware.net 4 months ago
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, it’s $75 USD a month. Who the fuck do they think they are charging that much? I get 1Gbps internet for less than that. That’s 3 weeks worth of groceries. That’s YouTube Premium, Disney+, Netflix, and Max combined.
Absolutely no way an online news outlet is providing even close to a quarter of that $75 in value.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s 2 weeks worth of groceries.
I would be lucky to get a week off of that. If all I ate was instant ramen and stovetop pasta for every single meal, I might be lucky enough to get two weeks off of that.
Absolutely no way an online news outlet is providing even close to a quarter of that $75 in value.
The outlet is called Financial Times, and—if you think about it—they certainly do an excellent job in helping individuals manage their finances correctly. After seeing a $75 charge on my bank statement from a news outlet, I would never forget to cancel another promotional subscription again.
pearable@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
You can get a lot of rice and beans for 75 dollars. Definitely sounds like a rough week tho
Womble@lemmy.world 4 months ago
its the Financial Times, they know exactly who they are charging that much, and those people will spend that about of money without even noticing its gone.
gibmiser@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Whatthefuck
GluWu@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Old people pay the $1 because of course, then forget.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I make it $100 Canadian per month, plus tax. It’s not intended for us lowly poors.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Garbanzo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Still can’t read the content without pop-up ads. Hella enshitified.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Do you not have an ad blocker?
Bruh uBlock origin is the way
Garbanzo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not on my phone, and it’s pretty shitty to need add-ons just to make content readable, so whatever
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I’m using Firefox focus’ adblocking and a PiHole and I still have three giant ads banners that prevent me from reading on Archive hahaha
LetThereBeR0ck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thanks for this, the article was well worth the read
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Which does answer the question very succinctly.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Nothing wrong with paying for content? Enshittification is about something different than just being expensive or bad.
csolisr@communities.azkware.net 4 months ago
Paying for content: fair enough
Paying almost A THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR for content: barely worth it
deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
That’s a value proposition. Explain to me how you would price this for it to be fair? If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. This has nothing to do with enshitification.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Here’s my response: [just paypal me $5 to see it]
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not just a paywall, but a cookie dialog taking up more than my whole phone screen, where you have to click into it to “reject all” (and it doesn’t reject all), just to get to the paywall
Lycerius@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A paywall you find only after you have to manually reject cookies. Done? Okay, here’s your paywall!
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
When your only claim to fame is jamming the word “shit” into other words…
You need to milk all that ad money out of it you can.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
FWIW Cory Doctorow was famous before coining that word. He’s done a lot of great work. You should research before saying things.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So many accomplishments you couldn’t even name a single one if you tried!
bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 4 months ago
he basically was all of EFF europe when i found him mid-2000s. he also worked boingboing for a very long time.
Rolando@lemmy.world 4 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow
Awards 2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer[91] 2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom 2004 Sunburst Award for A Place So Foreign and Eight More 2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "I, Robot" 2007 Locus Award for Best Novelette for "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" 2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award[92] For Little Brother 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award[93] 2009 Prometheus Award[45] 2009 Sunburst Award[46] 2009 White Pine Award[94] 2018 Inkpot Award[95] For Pirate Cinema 2013 Prometheus Award[45] For Homeland 2014 Prometheus Award[45]
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So hard to lift a finger to do the work yourself while your shitposting. Follow your own handle’s advice.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Let’s skip for a moment that, as other posters already showed, Cory Doctorow was already famous before coining the word. As in: let’s pretend that his only achievement was indeed to coin the word “enshittification”.
He noticed a rather nasty pattern in a system used by 2/3 of the world population, described it, labelled it, identified potential causes and solutions. It wasn’t just “lol lmao he jammed the word «shit» into another X-D”, even if you’re pretending otherwise. It’s a big fucking deal.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 months ago
CD is a beast. One hell of a great guy. I have actually donated money to some of his more worthy causes before.
Ft It’s kind of a s*** hole though. And for the paywall to abruptly block you outright not a single word not a hook, which is kind of weird because it’s a little bit against what he stands for I know it’s not apples to apples…
I read the article. It’s kind of disappointing, somewhat of a Nothing Burger.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It was on purpose, now you get the point clearer.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ohh no, it’s a real article, if you have bypasspaywall clean you can read it
I’ll give em a little credit, the article is by Cory Doctorow
But then we have this:
"The internet isn’t more important than the climate emergency, gender justice, racial justice, genocide or inequality. But the internet is the terrain we’ll fight those fights on. Without a free, fair and open internet, the fight is lost before it’s joined."it costs a dollar to read the article.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Or 99CND monthly for this shit
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
They mean “free to charge you a dollar” by “free”
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This would be a meme by itself:
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bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
SIXTY NINE EUROS PER MONTH HOLY FUCK
rambaroo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Financial times has always been always expensive AF because it’s made for rich investors.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 months ago
FT is for suckers. Barron’s is the better news source.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Only 420 euros if you sign up for a whole year