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The internet is almost unrecognizable from what it was 20 years ago.
Profits run everything, and while I understand that, it does lend itself to a shitty experience for the user unless you pay for it.
To me it seems like the 2000s and 2010s when all those companies got massive and laid off middle management. Then those short sighted assholes got jobs elsewhere and poisoned those ponds.
Almost unrecognizable from just three years ago.
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All the actual journalism getting paywalled probably isn't great for social/political discourse and our general grip on reality.
It's kind of ridiculous how quickly actual access to news and an informed world view, which WAS supposed to be one of the Internet's great advantages, has become a dream unless you pony up to the whimsies of every fucking publication board craving fat profits.
Yeah, plus it's not even like having to buy newspapers in the pre-internet days, it's all recurring subscriptions that are a pain to cancel. Truly a great shame.
It’s prices. You should be able to subscribe to a website for $3 a month
It sucks because journalists do need to make money to continue reporting. Spamming sites with ads is bad for the reader's experience too. Not totally sure what the solution is.
Just wait till they paywall the air.
Now you get that polluted city shit for free and only need to pay for access to premium country air. As time goes by we’ll all need to pay up.
On the bright side, that would come with a strong carbon tax and climate change would be much reduced.
Everything funded by a ton of ads wouldn't be great either. More state funding might be a solution but support for it is lackluster.
I literally don't read any articles that force me to register. I feel like I'm going to become rather ignorant because of it, but I don't want to participate in their schemes either.
Just add archive.today before the start of the URL
or 12ft.io
Companies (like the New York times) can pay 12ft.io to make them stop bypassing the paywall. archive.today doesn't take that money
(12ft is still a viable backup if archive.today is broken for a site, though)
huh TIL
I used to use 12ft but if rarely works for me now.
I use the Associated Press app. They have never asked me to pay and I don’t see stupid articles that are just links to Reddit or Cracked.
I still use Google news to follow some topics and it gathers articles from my local news sites, too. But any time if shows an article that prompts me to register to see it, I just go back to the Google news page and tell it to block that source.
You annoy me once and you disappear lol.
Yes! That's exactly what I've always done lol.
Ever notice how right-wing news is free but actual news you have to pay for.
Because making up stories is much easier than actual journalism.
Lmao, it’s so funny! We pay for made up things in the entertainment industry, but also pay for the truth in media. Ah, capitalism.
The lies are alwsys free, though.
We pay for those in various other ways.
And they make their money peddling boner pills, fear, and preparation buckets.
More like the proletariat it influences are the product being sold
12ft.io works pretty well for articles like this
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Lol. To be fair though Reuters business isn’t views it’s selling articles to other press.
Don't bring logic here, this is reddit! Wait. Oh no. Seriously though, not all sites with pay walls are applying the pay wall to every article. Some charge for opinions and business gossip while leaving true news that affects everyone open
Don't bring logic here, this is reddit! Wait. Oh no. Seriously though, not all sites with pay walls are applying the pay wall to every article. Some charge for opinions and business gossip while leaving true news that affects everyone open
lpt- reuters only uses a soft paywall, you can bypass it pretty easily by opening articles in an incognito/private window
I wish there was a way to have responsible news sponsorship without having this annoying ass article limit system or web 3.0 crypto nonsense.
(I nearly flinched when writing that last sentence because I still have PTSD from Twitter summoning the Hordes if you so much as mention that c-word.)
I have a yearly subscription to WaPo for this reason. It's nice to have real news available without the hassle. Still have to deal with the nags on NYT, but one subscription is enough for me.
I always put the URL into the Wayback Machine on archive.org in these situations. 9 times out of 10 there's an archived version of the article with no paywall.
Yes. That or use Google Cache. They almost never show a paywall to the Google bot because that would hurt their page rank.
Reuters is different right? I mean, they're actually producing content, not just taking user-created content and claiming that it's theirs.
Has anyone tried WebApps? I did and it didn't limit me when I passed my limit of 600
Glass cliff tho?
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