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You block the sources in your Google News feed. https://news.google.com/news/u/0/settings/sources?hl=en https://news.google.com/news/u/0/settings/sources?hl=en

• FireBeyond 9y ago
  So "blocking paywalls" that appear accessible in Google Search is now "opt out"? Ewww. This might be the time I hit Duck Duck Go. To be clear, I have no issue with paywalls. But they should be flagged as such. "Article title: blah blah blah [Subscription required to view content]" even. But they won't do that, because publishers, who buy advertising, will scream because they KNOW their click through rates would plummet. After all, even with a paywall, you still get plenty of metrics and advertising bumps on that first click to the site.
  • baldfat 9y ago
    > Google Search is now "opt out"? No, not at all. It just doesn't let you get free articles behind the pay wall. So now you can either avoid the pay wall websites or you just block them.
    • FireBeyond 9y ago
      Right. I have to go through and filter my search to remove each source that has "articles that are available to Google to index, but not to me, except for a fee". Note that in no way am I complaining about using Google to avoid paywalls. I rarely bother. I'm talking about having to filter out paid content that is indiscernible from free content.