Wow, the Washington Post just became invisible.pic.twitter.com/PpUASYTTTB
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Adblocking is fomenting a broad industry improvement in ad standards. There's common ground between good UX and ad-revenue business models.
Had the ad industry not been lynching privacy, engaging in malicious activity, no one would have blocked ads, probably
Aren't you a billionaire?
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally in favor of ad-blocking, but the alternative is for people to pay for content ala patreon
Not only are ads a security threat, and generally speaking trash - they drive people to produce garbage content that wastes people's time.
If sites produced content people actually liked, as opposed to simply felt compelled to click, we'd be better off.
Another way to fix broken UX would be to not visit the website. Users of YC startups accept terms of service - please do same for Wash. Post
You go to subscription page and hit cancel. How is that hard? And you want to have to resub every month? Seems like that would be bad UX.
But wouldn't it be just as annoying to constantly update the subscription instead of autorenew? (Agree on hard to cancel part, though)
It would ne nice that I can pay for example for 100 articles per month and read it on any site I want, something like Spotify.
@nicksrockwell Do you think the paper would have more net subscribers/revenue with that strategy?
No it's demanding continued access to content you're not paying for b/c you don't like a UI. You might have reasons, but it's still stealing
Don't we also recognize ownership of UX as components controlled by lots of parties (advertiser creative, ad networks, publisher UX)
Are you speaking of a specific expletive with wapo or generalizing?
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