I refuse to pay for most sites since they tend to offer little value and/or use dark patterns such as barely disclosed trial periods. Even high value sites like

I refuse to pay for most sites since they tend to offer little value and/or use dark patterns such as barely disclosed trial periods. Even high value sites like NYT, I refuse to pay for because of their semi-deceptive trial periods but just as importantly their remarkably high pricing after the trial. After using up the few trial articles for a given month I just don't read from that site. Maybe two or three times a year total I might go to extremes like firing up a different browser to try to load a story with a fresh session, if it's something I really want to read. I do pay decent money for some valuable sites that offer good content. And I end up paying even in months when I don't consume their content, and I don't mind, because I like supporting the site and I can go back any time with full access (as long as I am subscribed) and get any content I missed. This tends to be more tech how-to stuff, as opposed to news. Like NSScreenCast and objc.io, which are both great in different ways. And their pricing is not insane for what they offer. It's fair. Unlike the news sites, which have utterly crazy pricing if you do a quick calculation of how much it would cost you to subscribe to a dozen or so of them. I dip into way more than several dozen news sites that want me to pay. No way I could make the budget fit even a small subset of them, at the prices they want.