Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38632180
NOPE NOPE NOOOOOPE fuck that man.
It's been like this for years
Yeah, and honestly I'm OK with it, even though I've never actually paid for OED. (I do plan on buying a physical dictionary soon, though.) OED has always maintained that theirs is a service worth paying for, whether it's a physical book or an online account.
And with the increase of AI-generated content, I completely agree with them. Human-created content, or human-curated content, is valuable. If we want it to exist, we'll have to pay for it.
Subscribe to an independent news source. Send your favorite video creator a few dollars on Patreon. Buy a dictionary. This is actually how we resist enshittification.
edit: Another commenter pointed out that their pricing is ridiculous, though, and that is also true. $10/month or $100/year is way too high.
Information wants to be free.
I doubt it has any meaningful impact on anyone with access to the internet.
This is about as shocking as the farmer's almanac putting its information behind a paywall. Probably won't be long until OED goes that way too.
Old-ish post, but would rather buy an offline software instead (which I do). No ties to the company past the transaction, and some of the ones I have are older than me and still work just as fine.