So I get ads are terrible, obviously. I run ad-blockers all the time. But people also get angry at paywalls. So that leaves me wondering, if not through ads or subscriptions, how is a news publisher supposed to sustain itself?

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[–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Let’s not pretend like this is a binary ads / no ads concern

It def is though... people, myself included, turn on an adblocker or install pi-hole and set it and forget it. All ads blocked. That's binary. No one is going to a site, turning off the blocker, investigating the quality of the ads (lmfao), then deciding if they want to turn the blocker back on or not - total fiction.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    So you’re kinda the problem that OP is asking about though. How are they supposed to generate income? Paywalled articles that you skirt those restrictions too? At what point does it become theft? This silent battle between a site needing revenue to exist, and users trying their hardest to block ads and take the content for free?

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