{"id":26669,"date":"2019-02-26T13:29:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26669"},"modified":"2020-09-01T20:53:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T00:53:05","slug":"mozilla-partners-with-news-subscription-service-scroll-to-build-an-ad-free-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/02\/26\/mozilla-partners-with-news-subscription-service-scroll-to-build-an-ad-free-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla partners with news subscription service Scroll to build an ad-free internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Verge <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/2\/26\/18241183\/news-subscription-service-scroll-partner-mozilla-firefox-ad-free-internet\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla partners with news subscription service Scroll to build an ad-free internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nScroll is an upcoming news subscription service that promises to let you read all your favorite news websites ad-free in exchange for a monthly fee.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am glad to see this finally happening.  I first suggested this idea in April 2010 in the post <a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/04\/25\/monetizing-internet-content\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Monetizing Internet Content<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other posts that I have made on this topic include the following.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/08\/08\/why-does-john-oliver-not-know-how-to-monetize-internet-content\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Why Does John Oliver Not Know How To Monetize Internet Content?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/09\/24\/monetizing-internet-content-a-working-example\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Monetizing Internet Content \u2013 A Working Example<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/09\/23\/monetizing-internet-content-one-more-time\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Monetizing Internet Content &#8211; One More Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/04\/15\/monetizing-internet-content-refresher-course\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Monetizing Internet Content &#8211; Refresher Course<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr class=\"plain\" \/>\nSeptember 1, 2020<\/p>\n<p>I have signed up for a trial subscription to <a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.com\/\">Scroll<\/a>.  I think this could change the face of the internet in ways I have been advocating for quite a while.  See my list of previous posts that is shown above.  In that list, I have posts from as early as 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verge has the article Mozilla partners with news subscription service Scroll to build an ad-free internet. Scroll is an upcoming news subscription service that promises to let you read all your favorite news websites ad-free in exchange for a monthly fee. I am glad to see this finally happening. I first suggested this idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26669"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28619,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26669\/revisions\/28619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}