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Facebook Is Looking Into Allowing Paywall For Selected Media Stories (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the insert-25-cents-to-continue dept.

New submitter sarbonn writes: Facebook is testing whether or not it can start charging for stories by placing a paywall that appears after ten stories have been viewed from one of its media sources. An interesting takeaway is that Facebook would like to do this by avoiding the mandatory 30 percent cut that Apple and Google get from their stores by going around their app stores. This is being targeted for around October. The news comes from Campbell Brown, who heads Facebook's new partnerships business. "We are in early talks with several news publishers about how we might better support subscription business models on Facebook. As part of the Facebook Journalism Project, we are taking the time to work closely together with our partners and understand their needs," Brown told TechCrunch in a statement via a spokesperson.

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  1. Fair and Balanced.. by bjwest · · Score: 2

    I'm sure it's going to be just as fair and balanced as that other 'F' news site. Possibly even more so when their algorithms kick in and show you only news that align with your world view.

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  2. Re:Paywall the whole thing! by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 2

    Better yet, give them their very own TLD, and require all advertising to be served from the same TLD. Do the same with Twitter, Google, etc. Make it a requirement to serve all advertising and content (including css and javascript) from the same domain as the site. Not only will it make it easier to stop tracking, but it will also make it easier to track down just who is serving malware.

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  3. Re:Media stories ruined Facebook by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 2

    Ignoring the privacy and big data issues: Facebook actually was useful at some point.

    So were buggy whips and mustache wax.

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  4. Translation by BadTuna · · Score: 2

    "...work closely together with our partners and understand their need for money..."

    FTFY

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  5. Shit website by Stephen+Chadfield · · Score: 2

    I do use Facebook but I don't think it is very well designed. It is low down on my list of sites I would pay money to use if I was forced to. Very much in the "ditch if paywalled" group.