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This NYT practice of offering an article as clickbait then waiting a few moments after you start reading to block access and ask for a subscription is getting r
by threshold 5y ago
This NYT practice of offering an article as clickbait then waiting a few moments after you start reading to block access and ask for a subscription is getting really old. Everytime is a slap in the face and reenforces my position on never buying news articles. If only there was a filter or plugin to blackout links that pull that trick.
- jungturk 5y agoI got so fed up with paywalls that I started paying for the content I wanted to read.
- threshold 5y agoSo I have to make 50 accounts for every news service and hand out my credit card for yearly subscriptions everytime I want to read an article? Do you know what a PITA it is to keep track of and cancel those subscriptions? Half the articles are clickbait, opinion pieces, or have a strong political agenda with painful lack of objectivity. The assumption then is I'm going to pay upfront based on a headline? No way not in 2021. The news services need to get together and back one single payment processor, and accept payment on articles that are actually read, and there needs to be a one click option at the end of every article to cancel payment to prevent them taking advantage. And they are taking advantage and clearly have no respect for their readers looking at current tactics.
- naturalauction 5y agoI mean there are plug-ins that block paywalls. Whether that’s ethical or not is up to you but you could just install that instead.