Are we entering the paywall age?
Are we entering the paywall age?
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Explain
We have been there since the late 2000s bruh
Name one important site that has paywall.
We never left it my dude. Thank god there's sci-hub and libgen
I don't see the big deal because it's not like anything of value has ever been behind a paywall.
EU laws have consequences.
YES. Thanks to your autistic adblocking, the internet will not be free again
Remember when yahoo answers was god-tier for homework? Now it's all just Chegg everywhere you turn. Also porn
I have yet to see a website that put a paywall because of EU laws. Those websites afraid of that law just block european visitors plain and simple.
>the internet was free to begin with
Gianna Michaels and Sara Stone, those were godesses
>wahhhh! business should provide me content for free while simultaneously not monetizing my data!
kys berniefag
No, they should make a paywall for everyone but me
No don't be silly. It's obvious that...
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>be site owner
>put a couple banners on your site
>notice it pays for a beer every month
>get greedy
>put a million flashing banners with sound all over, open some popups, cover the entire site with a full-screen ad and also put a huge banner that scrolls along with the page and obscures 1/3 of the vertical space
>how dare these fucking freeloaders block my ads XD
No one will pay
This too shall pass
>monetizing
selling
the internet will be more free when people stop expecting it to be gratis
Better than adware area.
Paywall encourage and finance quality content, ad revenues encourage attention whoring and cheap clickbait
then explain why Jow Forums is the greatest website on earth
We are rather entering the "see paywall, turn 180 degrees, leave" age, as even the nurmens start to get that there's infinite news sources online.
"were"? Are you retarded?
The funny thing is that very few companies can thrive under a paywall model.
Switching to a paywall will just kill many sites faster as most users will cluster around the free solutions.
Doubt
he probably means this
That's not a fee to use Windows 7, though. That's just a fee to get updates.
Something most people clinging to Windows 7 aren't getting anyway.
it it gets any more serious (win 10/11 subscription) its time to just cancel ISP service and get a dumbphone, its not worth it
Gianna Michaels makes vertical camgirl-tier tease garbage on her cellphone these days. She never made any incest. She's irrelevant.
The economist
Just try free for one month bro
>Torrenting security updates
What a time to be alive
Yes, and with it we're getting news piracy.
>implying people can't live without clickbait
Paywalls are a thing if the stuff you write have any value past the headline
True man, it wasn't about making a living before.
Hopefully mining user data will fail after some point when it all becomes public knowledge anyways and you'll be able to go back to an ad-free internet
>not watching it for free on YouTube
youtube.com
heh. yeh. i noticed this once using a UK based vpn
nightmareland
>You will finally be freed from the Internet
Thank God Almighty
I'll just buy the paper when I get my chocolate milk like my dad did.
even worse than paywalls is every media going full digital distribution subscription service where you only license things instead of actually owning anything
digital distribution should be like a vending machine, put in a quarter and the game pops out, no strings attached
>implying ive been getting win7 updates since they started using windows update to force win10 on users
inb4 "b-but viruses! security!!!!!"
fuck off, pleb
adblock, noscript, dont download shitty .exes from dodgy sources, check your processes, and keep regular backups
if you don't do the above, you dont deserve a computer, brainless faggot
>nurmens
>i can't type "normalfag" because i find the word "fag" to be problematic and triggering
>i can't type "normie" either, otherwise i'll be outing myself as a redditor/tumblrette
>better invent a new word and nonchalantly put in a post or two and hope it slides by
Holy fuck! You're really butthurt, aren't you?
>who hurt you?
nurmen detected
>implying it was ever different before adblocking caught on.
user, you have to be at least 18 to post here.
yes it was, retard
Norman detected.
>AOL subscriptions to use AOL forums
>AOL was actually mainstream
>old internet wasn't paywall
Nurmen detected. Summer is over Deshawn
>had to pay for fucking basic EMAIL service.
>there was no wikipedia and you had to pay to purchase Microsoft encyclopedia software.
Name ONE major website that is using a paywall.
More likely we will enter the mining+ads age.
>You want to use this website?
>Click here to access this website:
>- Agree to have your data mined
>- Agree to see ads
>- Agree to mine crypto
>- Or, give X USD/month to use the website without any of the above
That's it.