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Pollar has no outside owners and no ad networks. Members pay for the servers in Germany and the AI models that sort, summarise and translate reporting from European newsrooms, so everyone else can keep reading for free.
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As a Supporter you get
- Offline reading for saved stories and your feed
- Any article read aloud by a synthetic voice
- Pollar Chat without the limit of 10 questions a day
- A weekly members' letter with deeper analysis
- The daily brief without the sponsor
- A supporter badge on your profile
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Where your money goes
Servers and databases
Rented from Hetzner in Germany and run by us.
AI models
They sort, summarise and translate the news. How Pollar is made names each provider.
Editorial time
Reviewing AI output and curating the threads.
No ad networks
A sponsor appears only in the brief on pollar.news, at most one a day and clearly labelled. Members read the brief without it.
Personalisation in the EU
The AI behind your feed runs in EU regions rather than the cheapest US endpoint.
Who you are paying
Pollar's stories are summarised by AI from the reporting of European newsrooms, with a link to every source. Four people decide what Pollar covers and how it works. Read how Pollar is made.
- Jakub DudekFounder, editor-in-chiefBerlin
- Bartosz KasprzyckiCo-founder, head of productBerlin
- Ignacy KonopkaCo-founder, head of engineeringWarsaw
- Jan SigsworthHead of Pollar SoundsLondon
Members who asked to be named
A N-H, wolnitz, Max P., Dan A, Matteus Sobczynski, Invacuation, N Entrialgo-Main, Mateusz Cieśla, Yousef El-Nashar, Danish Lukawski, Juliusz D., Harris.H and 20 others.
Before you join
Is anything behind a paywall?
No. Every story, brief, thread and live page stays free for everyone. Membership adds tools, not access.
What happens when the free trial ends?
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