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Thank you for this... how is something with a paywall so upvoted, it kind of goes against the spirit of this website.
by nichochar 8y ago
Thank you for this... how is something with a paywall so upvoted, it kind of goes against the spirit of this website.
- specialp 8y agoHere we are on HN with many people complaining about free* Facebook, and then also complaining about pay services too. It takes money to run a world class news organization. Either that or they can get paid in non money equivalents like "likes" or page views which make everyone but them money. Where the value is to fool someone to come to your page so you can mine their data for ads, and serve ads. To get people to subscribe to you, you have to provide more value than that.
- kyleblarson 8y agoI just recently signed up for a paid WSJ account and have not regretted it one bit. Their iPad app is particularly great.
- alvar0 8y agoI'd rather be surprised at how many people comment without reading the article first.
- pvg 8y agoYou can search your way to the dozens of moderator posts about (softly) paywalled posts.
- dang 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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- erikb 8y ago┌∩┐(-_-
- SirYandi 8y agoPut the url of the article into https://outline.com/ https://outline.com/ to get around most paywalls (including wsj)