The problem with paywalls is that every organization wants your money separately. I don't want to create a separate account with NY Times, YouTube TV, The Guardian, Atlantic, Bloomberg, etc. and pay for each service separately. In particular, I consider each such account a security risk for data breaches and a potential for leaking my private information. Maintaining each account, having separate passwords, dealing with burdensome and intentionally difficult cancellations are all major headaches.
I don't want Google and the likes to become more powerful either, but some kind of consolidated access to all such information might be a better approach for the news consumer. Perhaps some kind of pay per "article" model might work better.
I would have been more willing to pay something like 25 cents per article if there was a universal access model.
I suprise myself saying this, but AOL model was probably a more consumer friendly approach...
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The problem with paywalls is that every organization wants your money separately. I don't want to create a separate account with NY Times, YouTube TV, The Guardian, Atlantic, Bloomberg, etc. and pay for each service separately. In particular, I consider each such account a security risk for data breaches and a potential for leaking my private information. Maintaining each account, having separate passwords, dealing with burdensome and intentionally difficult cancellations are all major headaches.
I don't want Google and the likes to become more powerful either, but some kind of consolidated access to all such information might be a better approach for the news consumer. Perhaps some kind of pay per "article" model might work better.
I would have been more willing to pay something like 25 cents per article if there was a universal access model.
I suprise myself saying this, but AOL model was probably a more consumer friendly approach...