also feel free to comment your own suggestions for news sites for tech updates that don’t pay wall on the web page.
New York times - https://www.nytimes.com/section/technology abc - https://abcnews.go.com/technology
the hill - https://thehill.com/policy/technology/ BBC news - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology
while nonprofit Npr doesn’t pay wall, they have a new pop up that says something along the likes of “expected a paywall not our style please donate” that the user can dismiss and continue browsing the site. https://www.npr.org/sections/technology/
Reuters use to be a good source for me untill they started pay walling after a small amount of news article reads.
more and more news sites are pushing for paywalls even reuters now here are some sources that don’t have pay walls and Npr mentions paywall in their own new pop-up?
Have you got a paywall on fuckin punctuation mate 😂
PAYWALL PAYWALL PAYWALL. PARGON PARGON PARGON.
Wait, is that an Eternal Darkness reference?
I’m ok with scrolling past ads if they don’t obstruct my user experience. But if they pop up and move the page around, I’m out.
I think that’s the main reason many people have add blockers… Everything is either invasive or being used to track us to generate more clickbait that shove even more ads into our faces.
Pop ups are annoying on a traditional computer, but on touch interface devices they are pure evil.
I have an adblocker because I don’t want to see any ads and these businesses are profitable whether I use one or not. Even if they aren’t charging for paywalls.
It’s about maximizing profit, not keeping the lights on.
How do you imagine they profit?
Advertisements can be blocked or allowed. But my issue is with the secret tracking that goes on on most websites i encounter. I am willing to support good journalism, but i’m not willing to have my privacy invaded. Unfortunately, it is hard to separate them, because am i donating for good journalism, but also encouraging the tracking? When i donate, will they stop tracking me? Probably not.
Just write headlines like this and charge people extra if they want punctuation.
The Internet: “If you’re not paying, you’re the product, not the customer.” The Internet: “Ads suck! We’re going to block them.”
Content Providers: “OK, we’re going to charge to pay for our bills then.”
The Internet: “HOW DARE YOU?”
I don’t want to comment on entitlement because we’re not all in the same place financially.
However it IS important to support good journalism and some nicer models are funding through taxes (public broadcasters) or subscriptions. Subscriptions aren’t necessarily individual, and some are for through local libraries and universities.
Good journalism costs money, and it’s one of the only things that give us a fighting chance towards fixing the problems around us. If news agencies run out of funding, then they switch to other models, or worse they get sold to some corporation and the coverage is controlled.
What you can do, depending on where you are in life:
- financially: pay for subscriptions, or donate what is reasonable
- whitelist advertisements on good sites
- advocate for public funding and pooled subscriptions
Piracy / filter blockers will be around, so if all else fails just read the stories to learn and grow as a person. You can contribute and advocate someday
whitelist advertisements on good sites
Stupid question, but does that generate any benefit for the platform even if you don’t click the ads?
Even if I see an ad for something I’m interested in, I’ll act on that by looking the item in question up on a search engine or YouTube or something - never by clicking the ad, as that’s always felt like risky browsing behavior in terms of opening the doors to malware.
Fair question, I think it depends
Sites also have control over the types of ads they show, so sites with harmful ads should be blocked anyways
Occasional pop-up suggesting you sign up and/or donate but you can just dismiss it.
No one source is useful in a vacuum: you need to Investigate and Interrogate all media to form a clearer picture. So if I gotta shell out 100s of dollars to get that… well I’m just gonna disconnect entirely.
I like to say long run-on sentences like it’s a bad English dub over really old Japanese animation. Then I downvote.
Are you being funny on purpose?
I’ve tried quite a few Unpaywall versions of add-ons before and never had too much luck.
I suppose I’ll add another to the try list lol.
This one works very well. Of course it depends on the website but it supports a lot of them, including a lot of local and non English sites. I use it for a long time now, back then it was even still on the official addon store.
I really don’t mind paying for good commentary and objective news, not corporate propaganda. Instead I seek foreign and objective independent sources that provide real information to temper the MSM noise.
As if I care :). The web is wide. I can wait whilst reading something else more usefull or waisting my time elsewhere, till all those newly paywall’ed (or accountwalled just to read) sites would want me (and other lost users) back and get rid of their paywalls.
as you say this big companies in recent times have been working on making the web less wide, and less accessible mostly for independent sites. search engines hide sites, sometimes Playstore will take down apps. I think this is a small issue slowly turning into a big issue. and a small handful that own a bunch of the sites you commonly see will take advantage of the changing landscape.
If content providers and content sindication web companies will become profitable, that means other companies will want a pie too and the new web sites will start to appear. Also, it means that there is a profitable niche in this particular kind of content type trafic. And so, anyone can start a website with that content small and try to grow. The more paywalls on old established ones, the better the chances of the new ones, (or for unpaywaled again, old ones) replacing them.
It’s because people keep paying for them.
