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@neil @pwaring I notice that for many people, an important reason to have a blog is to earn money. Medium and Substack are based on this idea, and at least they are not surveillance based advertising.

I can sympathize with people wanting to earn some or all of their living by writing on the Internet.

As a read, I do not like the experience of having to click away popups to be able to read.

@liw @neil @pwaring Surprisingly, I have a *lot* of sympathy for people trying to earn their living with their writing. It's not an easy path, and you have to pick your poison... whether it's overt paywalls, annoying popups, or surveillance advertising, it's going to be annoying to people.

We've found a solution that works well enough for LWN - at least, well enough to keep us from having to get real jobs - but I'm not sure what the best solution is in a general sense.

@corbet @pwaring @neil I agree that it's not easy to earn a living from writing. I sometimes wish I could do that myself.

I find the popups annoying, but I do fully understand why they are used. I wish there were a solution that both got writers (and editors and copy editors and ...) paid and didn't annoy me.

I avoid most sites with popups and I pay a subscription fee for several publications. That doesn't generally work for the individual writer, I think: too small.