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.
wait. it’s going backwards now.
It definitely does it’s cycle. Like p2p versus server/client models.
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Yeah. One ethnic group is responsible for all the bad things. I wish people like you stayed on Reddit.
Don’t feed the troll. Report and move on.
What is a Bi smarck?
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
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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.
More like the proletariat it influences are the product being sold
And they make their money peddling boner pills, fear, and preparation buckets.
I dunno - isn’t it the right always complaining about mainstream news that is often as supported & rarely keep hosts that the main stream audience or advertisers get upset over & are willing to give quality news for free in exchange, think NPR, PBS & even CNN during trump before it went to pot & they tried their CNN+ bs.
Oddly I think CNN did well or better BEFORE they got greedy & attempted a Fox News by trying to overly pay wall their news.
It’s usually the right wing that tries to overcharge for their horrible infotainment. And it’s mostly the extreme right that does a mixture of pay for & free. Imo it’s the
Middle & left (that’s often still middle in context globally, that offers quality news at reasonable rates or for free as it’s more of an ethical service to them than a money grab. Not saying there isn’t or can’t be greedy left leaning orgs, CNN today imo, but they’re less common & less popular. They don’t reach Fox News or Newsmax level insanity imo.
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
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
12ft.io works pretty well for articles like this
Or use an AdBlock list like https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters
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.
Can you explain how to do this?
This about sums up the current state of things well.
Clear history/cookies and you can access it again.
Reuters is different right? I mean, they’re actually producing content, not just taking user-created content and claiming that it’s theirs.
They’re definitely different, just found it ironic.
Same on bloomberg. Used to be free -> 10 articles per day -> complete paywall… Fuck that
Has anyone tried WebApps? I did and it didn’t limit me when I passed my limit of 600
