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[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I’m neither registering for them to harvest my personal data, nor paying them to do the same.

Yet you want ads lol.

Why would you pay full price? It's way cheaper to find a good deal and then cancel after it runs out and then renew when they offer you the deal again, because they likely will.

If paywalls are just as bad as ads, I'm assuming you just want it for free.

Again, it's just an entitled attitude.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Microsoft is kinda obsessed with backwards compatibility so no, that won't happen.

Floppy disks will probably get dropped before USB.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

They were this close to fixing the whole USB 3.X mess.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Isn't most things in life restricted on ones ability or will to pay?

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

25 USD? I pay 3 ~~USD~~ EUR for their everything included tier.

The question is if a service should be priced for those that very rarely use it.

No other subscription is priced in a way that assumes that you will use it once a month.

You can also read like 5 articles a month for free if you registered.

Btw New York Times has a feature where any paid subscriber can "gift" an article to anybody so they can read it for free without registering or it counting toward the free limit. You can gift 10 articles every calendar month and there is seemingly no limit to how many can use one gift link. The links expire after 30 days though. Which I think is fair enough.

I have already posted a gift link above if you want to read the article.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Go back to Twitter.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Ads that pay enough are quite terrible for privacy though and why should manipulative ads be the only way you are allowed to finance your news? Plus the fact that a lot of people use adblockers (me included)

I agree that paywalls are annoying I also like free stuff, but crying about it like they did is just so entitled.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (14 children)

And those newspapers make money through magic?

[–] lud@lemm.ee -5 points 8 months ago (20 children)

Obviously they didn't say exactly that, but how else are they supposed to earn money?

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm just explaining why more communities haven't migrated.

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