• MacN'Cheezus
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    41 month ago

    Why is it shortsighted? A service like this costs money to run, and if you won’t pay for it, someone else has to.

    • @eskimofry
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      41 month ago

      Maybe lets not try to pretend that it is just about the costs shall we? I bet MBAs will cower at the suggestion to put up a paywall from the beginning. Afterall, bait-and-switch is their bread-and-butter.

      Subscriptions weren’t the norm when we actually paid for something and got the full product. The cost to run things didn’t suddenly become a factor just now.

      Only thing that changed: greed of businesses, execs, shareholders.

      • AwesomeLowlander
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        11 month ago

        we actually paid for something and got the full product

        That’s generally not online platforms, though. For obvious reasons, those have ongoing operating costs