Im actually very happy with a paid News subscription.
My only complaint is that there are still ads unless you block the hostname doh.apple.com (which usually returns a DoH server IP address which Apple then uses to resolve advertising domains — usually that would circumvent any other DNS blocks).
As someone who spent a few decades in it, the advertising/subscription model for media is wholly broken and hurting the public.
Honestly maybe they should be funded hands-off with public oversight by ISP money. Lol.
We never made a micro payment system so I can pay $0.25 to read an article
There were some tries (at least where I live). Problem was that they expected you to pay for the articles and not showing more than the headline. If you unlocked it, you just found out, that it was often just regurgitating the other (free low quality) news articles from elsewhere. It was hard to find some quality articles and after a few tries I stopped using that. They didn’t last long. I wonder if no one wanted to pay in general or if no one was interested to pay for low quality articles.
i find sources i trust and want to read, and put them in an rss feed
Your local library may have a digital subscription to newspapers, though the coverage may be delayed a day or two.
Also, pbs, npr etc do a lot of daily reporting for free.
If you're lamenting that the best journalists don't let you have the biggest news on demand, well yeah, if you could just buy the biggest/greatest hits in terms of clicks etc, the journalists (and the news ecosystem) might be in serious trouble.
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