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Why The Tulsa Frontier Thinks it can Succeed with a Hard Paywall and No Ads

posted by martyb on Sunday May 31 2015, @12:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the cable-TV-started-with-no-ads... dept.

tt1870479 writes:

Ad-blocking technology is finally taking off in the general population. In the US 15% of internet users have installed an ad-blocker, but among people born after 1980 the number is closer to 30%.

One American journalism startup thinks they have a business model that doesn't depend on advertising -- Low volume, high-quality, hyper-local investigative reporting intended to appeal to passionate citizens that are especially engaged in their community. Will it work? They claim to be close to achieving their budget targets after just a month of operation.

The startup is in Tulsa, about as far away as you can get from the stereotypical centers of innovation and journalism like Silicon Valley and New York City. Is the mainstream of internet development so addicted to advertising and Big Data profiling that they are unable to see opportunities that exist outside of their filter bubble?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2015, @10:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2015, @10:41PM (#190506)

    I don't have a paypal account. I will not give my credit card details to Google - not after learning that they give my private information to vendors. So, how do you transfer money and pay for goods in this wild west?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2015, @11:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2015, @11:12PM (#190514)

    Cash. Just the way Craigslist suggests, face2face.

  • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Monday June 15 2015, @11:15AM

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) on Monday June 15 2015, @11:15AM (#196428) Journal

    I can buy a prepaid fixed amount credit card in my grocery store, maybe you can too. Those can be used just like any other card. Don't know how expensive it is since I haven't used it so I'm going to try one of those when my bank account has more than the equivalent of 50 USD in it :D Also my bank allows me to make similar disposable credit cards now, I might want to try that as well.

    They'll still track you though, maybe even more, and for a delivery they'll need an address.

    Where I live most local online shops will still allow you to ask for an end of the month paper bill in the post for a small fee of about 5 USD (if you pass a general credit check), sometimes I use that. I'll just type that into my online bank and then only the spies will know :3

    Same way if I have an actual bank account number for whoever I'm paying anything to.

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