• duncan@feddit.ukOP
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    1 year ago

    125 is approximately 4 a day, so it’s really not that much. I suspect a lot are just opening articles (eg, by accidentally swiping sideways) rather than fully reading them too.

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      I don’t know man, if you are reading the guardian that much it might be time to start paying, it’s not like they are asking an extortionate amount from you either. Especially if you want to support the newspaper as it’s not a super profitable business to begin with.

      The financial times is £35 a month on the cheapest subscription they offer so you could be paying much more.

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        1 year ago

        To be clear, I’m not against paying for it - they do fantastic journalism and it’s worth supporting them. It’s just a surprise that they’ve implemented this given their stance has previously been very anti-paywall, instead making their money through other means.

        In terms of the numbers, the usage to hit the paywall is about 4 articles a day, and they send out on average around 3 breaking news notifications a day so you just need to click on all of those to come very close to the limit. That might just mean that they send out too many notifications though!

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          1 year ago

          That’s fair enough, who knows what changed at the guardian to cause this feature. Perhaps they just wanted to make some more profit, perhaps they are down on revenue from other means. Who knows. It is unusual for them to make this move after being anti-paywall you’re right. However they are definitely giving a decent amount of free articles in comparison to most other reputable newspapers.

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      1 year ago

      I start paying local news after about 1 article per day, and usually more like $20/month not the £10 they’re asking for.

      Pay up or stop expecting them to give you unlimited service for free.

      Hell, I’m paying my local union paper $25/month to support their strike against their corporation and I hardly read their stuff at all.