alt Hacker News> soon you'll need to pay every website 5.99 a month
No, I won't. I'll just stop using them. So will almost everyone. I don't think there's a single ad-supported product that would survive by converting to a paid subscription, because they're all so profoundly unnecessary.
Yeah, the fact that the only way that these products can survive in the competition of how I spend my time is a testament to how shitty they are.