alt Hacker NewsI'm doing my small part by paying for websites that respect me in the way TFA describes. I have annual subscriptions to Defector, Brand New, and DIELINE, and I'll add more as other websites follow their lead. Maybe it'll become too much to manage one day, but it might be for other readers too, and then maybe that will pressure our card companies and banks to start providing some more useful consumer services. We need enough people to actually subscribe to these websites to make that future happen though.
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JohnMakin • today at 4:18 PM
Are you sure they are? Loading dieline home page I get a ton of tracking blocks. Defector was better, but I still see adtech endpoints. I don't really know of any modern monetized site that isn't like this.
Every time I load an article in archive.ph, I think "I want to support these guys. I would happily pay $.10, maybe even $.25 for this, if it was seamless and instantaneous."
But that's never the option and apparently it never will be. Sorry, I'm just never getting yearly subscriptions to 30 different content websites. That would probably 10x my spam email intake, I'd have to worry about them jacking up prices and playing games after the initial subscription ran out, and I'd have yet another subscription floating out there in the ether for me to forget about.