alt Hacker NewsI can appreciate their troubles. How is someone supposed to pay for all the overhead that goes into research and writing these articles without a source of income. People also seem dead against subscriptions. The only way that seems to work is appealing to the LCD and raking in stream bucks but not all media/literature, especially the valuable kind, is conducive to that model.
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>How is someone supposed to pay for all the overhead that goes into research and writing these articles without a source of income.
I'm not sure, but we've been trying the online advertising model for a few decades now, and it's been terrible. Pop-ups, pop-unders, malware, I could go on and on. At some point it's fine to just say "no" to the advertisers after so much abuse.
Also, there's nothing stopping a website from hosting their own ads: these generally are not blocked by ad-blockers because they're served from the same domain, rather than a known ad-serving domain. But they never want to do this for some reason.
"How is someone supposed to pay for all the overhead that goes into research and writing these articles without a source of income?"
Some people here think it's wonderful most of Wikipedia was built without paying its editors. Depends who you ask.