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Microtransactions for viewing news would just start a flood of AI generated sludge designed purely to harvest those microtransactions.





To watch this play out, get an Apple News+ subscription.

(Unless it improved in the last few years.)

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I don't know if you have noticed that the internet has been a flood of slop content for years now just to harvest ad views.

Rather than ad-blockers we could have "junk content provider" blockers.

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