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summerlight
on Dec 13, 2019
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Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparenc...
No. The real problem is that no business model other than ads actually works for small to medium sized web sites at scale.
j88439h84
on Dec 13, 2019
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Subscriptions might work.
summerlight
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Except there hasn't been any successful go-to services for web subscription model. Google Contributor program is exactly the one, but it gets no traction from either users or publishers.
https://contributor.google.com/
j88439h84
on Dec 14, 2019
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Netflix and The New Yorker, for example.
summerlight
on Dec 17, 2019
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Neither of them are small to medium sized web sites, unfortunately.
j88439h84
on Dec 22, 2019
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The thing about being a small website is I probably haven't heard of it.
https://lwn.net/
comes to mind, I'm sure there are many others.
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