Screenshot says it. Please recommend alternative Leftist news sources. I am in UK but I read news from anywhere, any language if my browser can access it/translate it.
Here in UK, I have tried The Canary, Novara Media, Byline Times, Morning Star - all have strengths and weaknesses, none are a perfect fit. Still looking for my ‘daily paper’.
Thanks!
I would argue that everybody has a line in the sand they don’t want to cross.
For most of us, we don’t mind ads as long as we can avoid them with adblock. Which honestly just externalizes the problem onto people without it.
It seems to be a reasonable position to not accept a free site with personalized ads, because of the privacy costs.
It’s also unfortunate, for the newspaper to go this direction.
Sure, personalised ads can be seen as a form of an invasion of privacy, and everybody has a right to not engage with any organisation for any reason they like. But ads are an imperfect solution to the fact that it’s impossible to run a news organisation at that scale on voluntary donations and un-personalised ads alone, and it’s definitely preferable (in my view, at least) to having a total paywall.
Unless you have an innovative alternative income source to propose, I’m not sure I see what alternative there is.