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I wouldn't miss it. If they can find a viable non-tracking business model, I'd imagine most would. People used to pay for newspapers so there's pretty good precedent.


I have friends who a few years ago switched away from WhatsApp because it was charging 1 buck per year, and for that amount of money they gave you instant global unlimited text messaging, and those same people would have happily paid 10x that for a one-time meal.

I think you are grossly overestimating how much the average person is willing to pay for a digital service.

And I don't think newspapers are a good precedent giving how nobody buys newspapers anymore, compared to pre-internet levels at least.


If you don't miss it, then why bother forcing them to do this? Just don't visit their site?




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