ominouslemon

Every artist in every field get MAYBE paid a tiny bit upfront, and then a percentage of the sales. That's how books and music work, for instance

I mean, we've kinda already found a way, and it's ads. Now it's obvious that the ad market as a whole is horrible (it's manipulative, it has turned into spying, it does not work really well, it's been controlled by just a handful of companies etc), but at least it's democratic in that it allows broader access to culture to everyone while still paying the creators.

Personally, I would not be against ads, if they were not tracking me. As of now, though, the situation seems fucked up and a new model is probably necessary. It's just that, until now, every other solution is worse for creators.

This only applies to cases where the artist/actor/whatever gets paid upfront. Most of the times, that does not happen. The creator of something only gets money when somebody buys what they have created (books, videogames, music, etc)

But the time to create a novel, a videogame, or a news story is not infinitely reproducible, either. So when you are pirsting one of those things, you are actively reaping the benefits of someone's time for free, like going to a concert without a ticket

AntennaPod is amazing, literally my favorite app ever

Or just cheap ones. VW and every other maistream cars are getting unaffordable.

In Italy lots of online newspapers do the same: either you subscribe, or you accept the tracking

Top on my laptop (running linux with a very thin bar), bottom on desktop (both on Win and Linux). The reason is that it's closer to the eye level

Friendly reminder: Mozilla studied 25 car brands and NONE of them passed the privacy test. Mozilla even said that cars are "privacy nightmares".

This. Also, third part clients are usually just web wrappers for the actual official site

What is your issue exactly here? The fact that this could go against the GDPR? If that's the case, I don't see how a third party client would help. IG would still collect info about you and show you ads. Also, you would probably get the same popup asking if you want to subscribe. Nothing would change (except that with a third party client IG would not be able to collect as much info about you as with the official app)

Anyways, you still have the option to not pay and keep using IG as before. Nothing changes.

Probably my favorite pieces of software from Europe (not strictly the EU) are

Proton (ProtonMail, Proton Calendar, etc) - Switzerland

Inoreader (probably the best RSS reader ever - and I've tried lots) - Bulgaria