• Innti@kbin.social
      5·
      2 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.

      • FinalFallacy@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

    • XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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

  • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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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    3·
    2 years ago

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  • Void_Reader@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    All the actual journalism getting paywalled probably isn’t great for social/political discourse and our general grip on reality.

    • FunkyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • Karza@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Void_Reader@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • quortez@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.)

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • sussy_gussy@wirebase.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yes. That or use Google Cache. They almost never show a paywall to the Google bot because that would hurt their page rank.

  • oneofthemladygoats@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    lpt- reuters only uses a soft paywall, you can bypass it pretty easily by opening articles in an incognito/private window

  • imallamabanana@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    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.