Comment on Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry. It's hard, but we should leave it be
Greyghoster@aussie.zone 10 months ago
It’s one of the reasons I subscribe to a couple of news outlets, I value the news and someone needs to pay. Most people have forgotten that they used to “buy” newspapers, after all, everything is free on the internet.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The problem with paying for news is that 99% of the time it involves an account and logging in to view the articles. I don’t want the news I chose to read to be further monetised by the business, advertisers or data brokers, and I don’t want the news org changing what they present to me, or report, based on some analysis of subscriber attention and interaction.
That leaves the < 1% who don’t put their articles behind a paywall — even then, the surveillance capitalism of the banking and finance sector means that my donation transaction itself will be sold to data brokers, and from it the news I read can be profiled.
Nath@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I click on every single article on the front page into a new tab. I then read (some of) the tabs as I get a minute here or there through the day. I still get the news I want to read, there’s nothing to analyze because they don’t know which articles I spent more than two seconds on.
(Yes, I know there are ways to measure time on a page, but I don’t frequent such sites)