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It’s rare to see a paywall that doesn’t offer at least some free access per month.

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I thought the person that I was replying to was suggesting a token to remove ads, maybe I misread it. Either way, the token for access thing will never happen. It just doesn’t make sense for publishers.

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I know, but the point is that a paid token to remove ads is competing with tools that remove ads for free, so it’s unlikely that many people who are bothered by ads would even see them in the first place. You’re probably better off with just a digital tip jar.

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The subscription model doesn’t. Why would anyone subscribe to an outlet that they think publishes clickbait?

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Multi subs may have more legs if news orgs are able to agree to something like that.

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As I say, pay per view is a complete non-starter, too little to gain and too much to lose in potential subscriptions. Plus, a PPV model would encourage writing clickbait articles. To convince someone to sign up to a sub, they have to trust that you’ll put out worthwhile stories.

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I expect that the vast majority of adverts that appear on spam sites do so with no knowledge from the advertiser that that’s where their ads are being placed.

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That’s not happening. Some publishers did experiment with micropayments for article access years ago, they all gave up on it. One person signing up for a subscription is probably worth at least 400 people paying 25c to read an article, and providing articles for 25c will undercut your subscriptions.

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It started on Channel 4, one of our other terrestrial TV channels, but otherwise, yep.

Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Someone give Engadget a tap, it appears to be skipping.

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Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

I just stick them in the fridge and forget about them until I want to use them. I can’t remember the last time I cracked an egg and it was off, I don’t think it’s happened to me since I was a child.

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Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

I don’t think they’ll make much from selling your data seeing as it’s pretty much all held publicly. bsky.social/about/blog/5...

Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

We’ve currently got a millennial PM here in the UK and it’s not going great. Although, our previous PM was Gen X and she crashed the economy within about 15 seconds of trying to do anything. Maybe we should give a zoomer a shot.

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Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Maybe she didn’t know who she was texting.

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Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

What am I doing in that situation? I’m having a very weird dream, that’s what I’m doing.

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Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

I’m a small-r republican, and generally oppose our monarchy here in the UK, but one point I read gave me pause: that splitting the ceremonial and diplomatic functions of being head of state from the political ones does offer benefits.

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Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

If Sunak’s performances at PMQs can be considered an artform, my two year old niece’s efforts at colouring in must put her on a par with Picasso.

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Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

That’s disputed. roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/who-own...

Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

I can’t see how a brush would make you pee any harder.

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Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

The most beautiful piles of corpses I’ve ever seen.

Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

See also: the sadly cut-short Hannibal TV series.

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Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

I spotted a tree in bloom yesterday. My uneducated guess would be global warming.

Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

I’m returning to this post as I’ve thought of something else that really bugs me in the app: no landscape mode on images when rotating my phone. When people screenshot text, I find myself having to move the image from left to right for every line.

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Drewsky @afindlay.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Clearing cookies does usually stop sign in.

For me, personally, the answer is partially given by the post you’re replying to, and partially by my deep antipathy towards Mark Zuckerberg and anything he’s involved in.

I really miss the functionality in Tweetdeck where tapping the top of the screen scrolls you up to the top of your feed, but then tapping a second time returns you to where you were. I’m often accidentally returning to the top of a set of replies, getting back can be a pain. I’m on the iOS app.

Hmm. Pretty sure there’s no 2FA on BS, or, if there is, it’s not on by default. It’s been a while since I used Sky Follower Bridge. Maybe Elon found a way to break it.

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I do wish the weirdo over the road would stop staring through my window. It’s creepy af.

A photo, taken through a window, of a house on the opposite side of the road. It’s dark, but one window on the house is lit up. If you zoom in enough, you can see a large, round, white, furry soft toy with a wonky smile looking towards the camera.

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There’s a Chrome extension called Sky Follower Bridge which will search your Twitter friend list and compare it to Bluesky accounts. You still need to double check and confirm results, and it will result in some false matches, but it’s a good place to start.

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