Been premium since they gated the listen-with-screen-off feature behind it. Never looked back.
Ad free is great, and I’m happy to pay for it / support the creators. Compared to my other subscriptions, I’ll probably keep this after I cull most of the others.
I’ve frequently found the HN comments to be more valuable than reading than the articles themselves - the context & community that’s being nurtured here is (emoji sparkles) ;)
The Swedish Pirate Party definitely campaigns heavily on those issues, and less on "sharing culture". It took a few years for them to get through that phase.
I guess the UK Pirate Party is in need of more members who care about these issues?
According to Tim Rogers[1] in-app purchases are already being regulated in Japan. As far as I understand it there must be a finite number of purchases, leading to a "maximum spend" per title, which can be shown in-store.
Not sure how this ties in with that, but it seems several companies are also self-regulating by imposing a spending-limit based on the customers age[2].
Ad free is great, and I’m happy to pay for it / support the creators. Compared to my other subscriptions, I’ll probably keep this after I cull most of the others.