Ironic
Ironic
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The internet is almost unrecognizable from what it was 20 years ago.
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Profits run everything, and while I understand that, it does lend itself to a shitty experience for the user unless you pay for it.
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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.
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Almost unrecognizable from just three years ago.
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Lol. To be fair though Reuters business isn’t views it’s selling articles to other press.
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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
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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
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Lemmy can't handle triple my daily limit.
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Lemmy can't handle half my daily limit.
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Ever notice how right-wing news is free but actual news you have to pay for.
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Because making up stories is much easier than actual journalism.
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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.
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Just add archive.today before the start of the URL
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or 12ft.io
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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.
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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.
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Yes! That's exactly what I've always done lol.
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All the actual journalism getting paywalled probably isn't great for social/political discourse and our general grip on reality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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On the bright side, that would come with a strong carbon tax and climate change would be much reduced.
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lpt- reuters only uses a soft paywall, you can bypass it pretty easily by opening articles in an incognito/private window
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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.)
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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.
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12ft.io works pretty well for articles like this
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Or use an AdBlock list like https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters
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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.
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This about sums up the current state of things well.
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Reuters is different right? I mean, they're actually producing content, not just taking user-created content and claiming that it's theirs.
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They're definitely different, just found it ironic.
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Clear history/cookies and you can access it again.
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Has anyone tried WebApps? I did and it didn't limit me when I passed my limit of 600
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Glass cliff tho?
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Same on bloomberg. Used to be free -> 10 articles per day -> complete paywall... Fuck that
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