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Something like laracasts.com for example gives you just enough free content to be useful in of itself and then there's a monthly fee for the rest. A well put together content-based business model.

Instead of thinking of it as not having a viable alternative think of it as not having a viable business model. That's on the business, not the user.

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Personally I prefer getting all the content for free (ad supported).

Personally I think my attention is a lot more valuable than my money, so I'd prefer to waste the latter.

Businesses and bigger players keep screwing us over, and they're not charities so there really is not a lot of incentive to comply.

I mean, I hope someone finally comes up with a micropayments solution that works so you don't need 1000 paywall accounts to browse the web. But I'd still prefer ads and I'm not sure all sites I like would survive the transition to anything else.

> That's on the business, not the user.

If I don't like the prices the grocery store is charging, I don't shrug and walk out with a loaf of bread.

Loaves of bread aren't ad supported.

If bread was free but you have to look at ads for Nutella (Available in aisle 4!) then you'd have a point

Yes, except you don't know the price before entering, but once you do you're immediately charged. A store that acted like that would be forcefully closed.

You could say that's not a problem if you already know the site, but most use dynamic ads, so you don't know what you're going to get - you might even get infected (another thing that would get a real store closed).

Finally, most of these stores are connected and tracking which ones you visit and which products you purchase, and you don't have the option of "paying with cash".

> Yes, except you don't know the price before entering, but once you do you're immediately charged.

Like doctors offices, no?

Maybe in weird uncivilized countries :) Where I live, the private doctors offices have clear prices for consultations, and any subsequent procedure also has a price to which you can agree before going through with it.

Emergencies are handled by the national health service, so the price is also clear: it's whatever your tax rate is :)

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