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by neonate 8y ago
https://outline.com/EpGqWm https://outline.com/EpGqWm
- arhyth 8y agothanks for the outline. article was behind a paywall from my end.
- hiei 8y agothanks
- browsercoin2019 8y agoWas gonna complain that ft was behind a paywall. Ty.
- Cypher 8y agoyou should still complain, this nonsense has to end.
- hyperbovine 8y agoI’ll bet you say the same thing when you are forced to pay for groceries before eating them.
- james_s_tayler 8y agoKarl Marx said the same thing about collecting firewood in the forest.
- genera1 8y agoBecause, as with groceries, you're depriving someone else of content by consuming it. You wouldn't download a car. It's the most disingenuous argument against free media (or piracy etc) that's being thrown around.
- hyperbovine 8y ago> It's the most disingenuous argument No, it's not. I actually used to write for a newspaper before. These days, they are shoestring operations locked in a constant battle for financial survival. The stories are written by real people who get paid (very little) real money. Take that out of the equation and the news goes away. I deeply value journalism and want it to survive. The level of entitlement evinced by you, gp, and many others on this site as regards the whole "information wants to be free" meme is simply stunning. Like, you really haven't given a moment's thought to what "free" implies here.
- genera1 8y agoWhile I do agree with some concerns about quality journalism, and I want it to survive, I find the specific argument you used to be disingenuous. We're dealing with perfectly and infinitely reproducible 'product'. Any scarcity here is artificially imposed. It's not like with groceries, where we have finite amount of goods, that can only be consumed once. I know, that reality of dealing with non-scarce goods doesn't gel very well with free-market capitalism, but I think limiting access to journalism (and IP laws such as copyrights and patents) is a net negative for our society, so we shouldn't resort to bending our only post-scarcity type of good into a scarcity driven economic system.
- hyperbovine 8y agoSplendid. Impressive. Who pays? It’s a very simple question I’m asking you.
- genera1 8y agoGet rid of market capitalism and nobody has to
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- kaolti 8y agoI'm sure you're joking. Information is not a consumable, it doesn't get used up in the process.
- hyperbovine 8y agoAnd yet it still costs money to produce...
- tozeur 8y agoNonsense? Why do you say that? Is it nonsense that a publication needs to pay its employees? Is it nonsense that non-ad driven revenue allows a publication to focus on quality material versus optimizing for clicks?
- Dangeranger 8y agoMost publications including the New York Times allow for a limited number of free article views before a paywall is imposed. That approach allows for casual viewers to get a feel for the content, without open access to all the material.
- bufferoverflow 8y agoYou would be right if the article had some unique exclusive information. It doesn't. Maybe HN should ban paywalled sources.
- dclusin 8y agohttps://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome No need to rely on third party service.
- r3bl 8y agohttps://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox No need to rely on Chrome.
- sverhagen 8y agoDo you know why it's not added to the official directory of Firefox Add-ons?
- sah2ed 8y agoDude, don’t leave everyone hanging, spill the beans!
- sverhagen 8y agoMe? It wasn't rhetorical, I really don't know. But I installed it from GitHub. When I first tried that on my phone, I mistook the popup in question for my device saying it wouldn't do it for security reasons, which made me think I should get it from the Add-Ons directory instead (but couldn't find).
- propogandist 8y agoThe add-on is encouraging/enabling piracy of paid content. FF and Google will get legal pressure from news publications if they put this in their official stores
- retube 8y agothis is stealing content right?
- skrebbel 8y agoyes
- nobodyshere 8y agonope
- JeremyBanks 8y agoDang, ban this.
- gdy 8y agoDang, could you possibly ban Jeremy?
- papermill 8y agoThank you.
- sucrose 8y agoActually surprised this service hasn't been turned into an HN bot yet.
- noname120 8y agoOn FT outline only does a summary, check the bottom of the page: " Summary Data Page length reduced by 38% ⏱️ 3 min read"