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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    we all need to consider, it costs money to fund quality journalism. we have to be aware of the many forces working against basic silly journalism, like what’s happening at the school board.

  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Doesn’t NYT cut off most of the article now? I used to just be able to disable JS but that didn’t work anymore last I checked.

    • xenoclast@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Yeah the article stub doesn’t link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don’t have a session.

      It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.

      In this very particular situation I’m glad most companies are lazy and stupid.

      I don’t particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don’t make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.

      • ChuckEffingNorris@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        I thought the issue was they wanted search engines to be able to see the content, but not non paying viewers? Hence slightly shitty paywalls.

      • humorlessrepost@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        It’s incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall.

        Sure, but the easily-bypassed js method makes sure it’s still crawlable by search engines, which is a trade well worth making where I work. Doesn’t matter as much for porn sites since the title and description aren’t the content most people are there for, so you can expose them on the paywall page.

        • xenoclast@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Very true. I don’t disagree at all. I think once google finally becomes totally useless. It won’t matter.

          I mean Google is already just Yellow Pages AdWords edition with AI content

    • Polysics@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.

      Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.

  • attero@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years ago

    You would never use DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and then type !archiveis in front of your urlbar visiting a news site.

    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      It will also simultaneously render the vast majority of the internet useless, and not only the shitty parts that you don’t want/need anyway.

      • curry@programming.dev
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        2 years ago

        Javascript is overrated and more websites should be static with minimal interactive bs. But that’s just me, a cynical user tired of intrusive pop-ups and predatory advertising scripts.

    • Polysics@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Came to say this. And they make mobile browsers. If I want to share a paywalled article with someone I just load it up in brave and print it to PDF then send them that. Works every time!

  • Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 years ago

    Firefox has a button that shows up in the url that kind of turns the webpage into an e-book-esque view that pops up for most articles (especially Pay Wall)

  • NutWrench@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    And never, EVER disable JavaScript on that website and reload the page! Not even if your Ad blocker lets you selectively do it.