Isn’t there a contradiction between the constant complaining about paywalls by the HN crowd and the same crowd’s dislike of ad driven platforms? Someone wrote this - don’t they need to get paid for it?
If the it's neoliberal journalism surely the market, rather than ideology, should decide how it should be paid for?
Currently, the market seems more keen on ads.
Personally, I'd be happy to pay for investigative journalism (e.g. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations)... but not the kind of journalism which cites "tweets" as research and doesn't think enough of its journalists to give them a byline.
Only if it's the same people complaining about each. Also most people don't care so much about ads as they do the malware and tracking that often comes with them. It's possible to do ads right, there's just zero economic incentive to do so at present.
I for one don't have a problem with ads, I do use my GDPR privileges to turn off ad based tracking when I come to a new site and I feel it's good enough to warrant staying (if they don't let me turn it off I generally leave, if the experience is really bad sometimes I make a complaint)
