• le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Local news publishers, Karolian told Engadget, almost entirely depend on selling ads and subscriptions to readers who visit their websites to survive.

    Then it’s time to change your business model. Ad driven journalism has shown it’s limits decades ago, this is just regurgitating what other press agencies write and adding some ads over it.

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      11 months ago

      Subsequently, subscription based content consequently isn’t automatically available to crawlers, making it doubly useful.

      P.S.: love your username