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I could, but since the publisher doesn't get my money either way, and showing me the article costs about the same as showing me a paywall page, I don't see the
by DennisP 7y ago
I could, but since the publisher doesn't get my money either way, and showing me the article costs about the same as showing me a paywall page, I don't see the point.
Bypassing paywalls seems to me about as offensive as going to a bookstore and looking through a magazine without buying it. Maybe I end up buying a magazine, but I'm not going to buy every magazine I pick up, and basically everybody thinks that's fine.
- bradleyjg 7y agoI’d say bypassing a paywall is like tearing the plastic off a sealed magazine. If the publisher was okay with you thumbing through it they wouldn’t have sealed it in plastic. Same with a paywall. Publishers have the option of a nag screen instead if they want to go that route.