How long until all sites go premium-only?

>>61588951
The only sites that can go premium are sites with services that the majority of people will pay for, there are almost no cases of this right now where the payment isn't just paying for access to copyrighted material (like music, books etc).

Running a website isn't very expensive.

>I don't expect to see any "free" sites like 4chan and Youtube anymore in 5 years.
You're retarded.

>>61588951
I don't see sites which rely mostly on user generated content ever becoming paywalled like that. See: 4chan pass and YouTube Red.

kek, RSS reader. What is this, 2005?

>>61588951
their post was perfectly reasonable
taking features away from users unless they pay is just going to make them go somewhere else

ads generate no actual value either/

>>61588985
>Running a website isn't very expensive.
But anon we need thousands over thousands each month just to keep this site running, and thats only if we don't pay for our food I mean jeez are you really that coldhearted pls give your money or we'll die tomorrow.

>>61588951
>Millennials
Are you older than 35?
I would assume no,please dont talk nonsence.

>>61589028
RSS is comfy man, you read what you want without the botnet. That is, if reading is something you like to do.

>>61589058
Running a website is not very expensive. If your website or webservice gets more traffic it obviously gets more expensive, but more traffic means more monetizable traffic.

>>61589084
I read books, not meme news.

Only millennials use the term "millennials"

milleni all of deez nutz

>>61589102
>millennials
I'm one of them and i don't use it.

>>61589090
>Implying I consume meme news
I'm old school, I only follow PBS News Hour for news. Anything else is plebeian.

>>61589089
Well no shit.
Now give me your fucking money.

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>>61589140
really makes u think

>>61589128
Didn't say all of them use the term

If they charge for news (like many news sites already do) people will just stop reading the news and watch TV or whatever.

>>61588951
>jelly buttmad boomer goes off on tirade against millennials because he still can't block commercials on his tele-tube.

>>61589164
What, an actual headline with neutral copy? I don't understand.

>>61589198
all news is meme news

>people die here
>people die there
>watch what your pupp...err leader has in store for you!
>trans, niggers, TRUMP

>>61588951
dunno but I hope they do
then they will all die and the world will finally be free of this cancer

>>61589217
Not really. You will just get some Google addon that deposits 5 cents to every website you visit.

>>61589244
fantastic post, my friend

>>61589213
While I appreciate your Husker Du-esq "TURN OFF THE NEWS" attitude, there are areas of existence where things happen that are beneficial to know about. RSS is the best consumption of that knowledge. The fact that you used meme as an adjective suggests you visit forums to stay updated, so eat shit you hypocrite.

>>61588985
>Running a website isn't very expensive.
ofc your shitty website on 5$ VPS would not be very expensive.

>>61589213
>s-stop making fun of my meme president

lol

>>61589391
Of course, and yet retards feel the need to point out the obvious.

This is exactly why

>I don't expect to see any "free" sites like 4chan and Youtube anymore in 5 years.

won't happen. Code is cheap. It is cheap to start up a service. You upgrade as you get more traffic, and you will steal all of your competition's traffic if they are premium only.

>>61589412
I'm Canadian, dipshit. Don't give a fuck about Trump or your ridiculous (((elections))).

It's the websites who are getting more and more entitled. Be thankful I even bother to read and use your shit for free.

>>61589334
Man, to correct myself. It's "Turn On The News" and you stated the opposite of what the song meant. You're still a fag tho.

>>61589140
I don't follow politics at all. Feels good man

>>61589414
> you will steal all of your competition's traffic if they are premium only.
and bankrupt due to cost?

>code is cheap
>server is cheap
Have you ever run a website with million views per day before? Making code needs hiring people and hiring people costs shittons of money

>>61589474
>day
*month

>>61589474
Reread my post, because you seemed to ignore the part that addresses what you don't seem to understand. As you grow you get more monetizable traffic, to handle that traffic you upgrade with funds from the monetized traffic. It's not hard to understand.

>>61589508
>monetizable traffic
How can you monetize traffic when both ads/subscription are blocked?

>muh premium
I bet then only about 5% of people would pay premium and you would bankrupt.

Just look at netflix.

>>61588951
>I don't expect to see any "free" sites like 4chan and Youtube anymore in 5 years.

You make it sound like it's a bad thing. Corporate internet was a mistake. Ad-blocking is bringing back the good old net. It's the chemotherapy the web desperately needs.

>>61588951
>Internet is a marketplace

KYS faggot

>>61589542
>>61589569
t. Marx

>>61589538
>bankrupt
why do you even start a site if you don't have the money to run it?

>>61589458
Good goy.

>>61588951
>How long until all sites go premium-only?
never because 99% of website would die and never be used.

>>61589597
Because even if i had plenty money to run company eventually I'll lose all the money since no one will play nothing in any forms (personal information, subscription, ads, or etc)

>>61589627
>play
*pay

>>61589627
>no one
*people

>>61589542
this.
Its so retarded how every last bit of the internet gets sucked up by some huge ass company trying to monetize shit. Internet in the hands of the users may not provide youtube and whatnot but at least it forms communities and interaction and a generally interesting internet thats not dumbed down for the most brainless normie.
The ultra superficial way people interact on the net nowadays is disgusting. No matter what you do you're a nobody and only worth your cash.

>>61588951
Millennials don't all block ads, some of us only block degenerate XSS malware, but that has the effect of blocking the vast majority of ads so... Your move, internet marketing shill.

I created my own ads. Nobody has blocked the ads of my website yet.

If I occasionally come over a site which disables content because of uBlock ( (((ad"""block"""))) is an insult), I close that site immediately with the full confidence it could not offer me anything valuable.

>>61588951
>I don't expect to see any "free" sites like 4chan and Youtube anymore in 5 years.
if everyone had a 4chan pass that would solve a great deal of problems.

No bongs for one; the $20 fee for a pass is ~1 week's wage over there

>>61589613
Nope. Just an adult. Don't worry. I don't expect everyone to be as intelligent as I am.

>>61588951
>How long until all sites go premium-only?
A short while before they all go out of business.

>>61589772
>literally an idiot
>intelligent

kek

>>61588951
>I don't expect to see any "free" sites like 4chan and Youtube anymore in 5 years.
Thank god

Maybe we can go back to before the web consolidated around a couple dozen websites

>>61589733
the problem with the pass is that hiroshima is an untrustworthy piece of shit that fucks up the userbase, your implication of if everyone had it then it would be better is plain wrong because it´s based on the assumption that he actually wants to improve 4chan

>>61589812
Just because you can't comprehend someone else doesn't mean they're the idiots.

i want the "websites exist to make money" meme to die

>>61588951
>le work for "exposure" meme

Wiki is still running

>>61590004
Soros finances it. It's full of feminist/SJW crap spilled all over the place today, even in the articles you'd least expect it, and if you edit it out, they ban you right away.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Blue#Themes_and_analysis

>>61589851
Idiot (ἴδιος) actually means, "a private person uninterested in public life" in the original Greek.

Stupid medical doctors fucked up the word by using it as a euphemism for retards.

You are so stupid that you will never understand how stupid you are.

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>>61590050
>mfw you are using an example of thematic analysis of an anime on Wikipedia and expecting to be taken seriously

>>61590075
Humoring you. What do you mean by 'public life' here? I'm simply uninterested in uninteresting things. That's all.

>>61588951
Sites' reliance on ads restricts their freedom. I see nothing wrong with sites moving to premiums, I expected it for so long. If we needed some hated class of people to move that forward I am ok with that.

>>61590138
politics

>>61590161
Just because I'm not following the news doesn't mean I am uninterested in it on a conceptual level.

>>61590050
>anime analysis according to feminist film theory
woah people do amazing things and I'm here filling captchas

>>61590191
Politics doesn't have a conceptual level. It has an "actually will fuck your life up if you aren't paying attention to it" level.

>>61590358
Is that what you tell yourself to convince yourself you're doing something important?

>>61588951
i have no problem with ads, i have a problem with being tracked from site to site. if they stopped this, i would stop blocking

>premium only
But we already pay the internet. So maybe after internet becomes free for all users.

>puts up autoplaying HD video and uncompressed images all over the site
>"Our costs are so high please enable ads!"

Or they could just not fill up their site with trash that I have to block anyway.

>>61589682
Reminds me of the people who complained about the paid BBSs.

>>61588951
but the post was reasonable, OP.
all you're doing is sitting here on /g/ whining about
>THOSE S-STUPID M-MUH-MI-MILLENIALS AND THEIR F-FUH-FUCKING AD B-BUH-BLOCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
time to go to bed, gramps