• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Firefox desktop mode, hit the reader icon next to the url. no paywall

  • 𝐘Ⓞz҉@lemmy.world
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    Is there a firefox add-on for mobile that blocka those annoying cookie popups and also bypasses paywall?

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    I’m thankful MS Edge allows JavaScript disabling at the site level. I have several sites disabled and it works fantastic.

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    If you have a subscription to Apple News, you can use the Share > News.app feature to open most paywalled major news outlets. And the outlet gets paid.

    I don’t have an Android device, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it has something similar.

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    I’m going to be honest here. If you live in a poor country, sure go ahead and bypass the paywall. But if you can afford it buy the subscription. Real journalism actually takes time and money. Because otherwise news sites depend on ad revenue which then results in click bait journalism. There is no third option. Journalism, much like anything else, is not free.

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    These comments are great…I work for the one of the largest news sources on the planet and it’s clear most people think I shouldnt get paid. Thanks.

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      If those news sources don’t want to give away content for free then they shouldn’t transmit those contents to the user’s computer and then run a client-side script to pretend that they didn’t.

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      A handful of Lemmy users on the “technology” community does not equal “most people”. That’s just bad journalism lol

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      The ads that already show on the article page should be paying you. i have no issue paying for services, but at the coffee shop i can read the newspaper for free, paywalling news blocks poor folks from participating

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      Imagine giving away newspapers, but some articles are covered by a flimsy piece of paper saying you need to pay before you can rip it off.

      Who would honestly pay to read?

      • Iheardyoubutsowhat@lemmy.world
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        You serious ?..so, how does a books author get paid ? Fiction or non fiction. A journalist or photographer ? They should just do the work unpaid ? that’s real people using real time…

        Seriously…whatever you read…someone created that…and you dont think they should be compensated…or just not by you ?

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          I pay for a book.

          If they’re giving the book away for free, they shouldn’t be angry that I tear out the ads first.

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      Welcome to Lemmy. A place where the user based thinks that anarchism works, everything only being free isn’t mainstream, and that piracy is the answer to teaching big companies a lesson but they will pirate Zelda and talk about how great it is but how terrible Nintendo is rather than just buying Zelda to support devs.

      I have been on here 3 weeks and in those 3 weeks I have learned the community here has this thought that they are not as big of ass holes as people on Reddit. However, they are just as inclusive and additionally just different kinds of assholes.