That's complete bs, The only way that most of these content providers can keep on providing value for you is to monetize you. Web site's aren't free, writers/programmers/servers cost real money. No one owes you anything. You want good free content to read then deal with the fucking overlays. The sense of entitlement kills me. It isn't a answer of just being "better" either. People of lazy and if you give them all the content without at least pushing them to sign up, a lot will not.
The only way that most of these content providers can keep on providing value for you is to monetize you.
How about if they actually asked for money in a honest, up-front way, instead of treating users like a cattle to be milked? What the hell happened to the "exchanging value for money" business model?
No one owes you anything. You want good free content to read then deal with the fucking overlays.
Me dealing (or not) with overlays is a completely orthogonal thing to the fact that people who employ those methods are at least disrespectful of their users, if not out-right dishonest.
Comments
It's not about content, it's about the company actively showing that they don't really care about providing any value, but only about monetizing you.
This. I wrote this piece [1] on Medium, previously submitted here [2] about this exact issue. I also made Tab Closed; Didn't Read [3].
[1] https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/a30bbe8b54a5
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6819358
[3] http://tabcloseddidntread.com
Thanks for the links. Bookmarked TC;DR immediately.
That's complete bs, The only way that most of these content providers can keep on providing value for you is to monetize you. Web site's aren't free, writers/programmers/servers cost real money. No one owes you anything. You want good free content to read then deal with the fucking overlays. The sense of entitlement kills me. It isn't a answer of just being "better" either. People of lazy and if you give them all the content without at least pushing them to sign up, a lot will not.
How about if they actually asked for money in a honest, up-front way, instead of treating users like a cattle to be milked? What the hell happened to the "exchanging value for money" business model?
Me dealing (or not) with overlays is a completely orthogonal thing to the fact that people who employ those methods are at least disrespectful of their users, if not out-right dishonest.