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Paywalled. https://archive.is/BrrUr https://archive.is/BrrUr

squarefoot 5y ago
The Bypass Paywalls extension removes the Great Wall Of Greed effectively. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-firefox/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...
- dopidopHN 5y ago
  For some publications it’s more a wall of beg. But still, thanks for the link.
- throw0101a 5y ago
  > removes the Great Wall Of Greed How about the Great Wall of Paying Journalists?
  - squarefoot 5y ago
    Forcing people to sign up and pay for every article they read doesn't scale with the digital age. It could have been a solution back when the average person read say 3 physical newspapers and 5 physical magazines (made up numbers just to show the point), but now that the 30 articles one reads in a week could come from 30 different online publications, some of which could well be different the following week, the same solution doesn't scale anymore, and the money spent in commissions and taxes for all those micropayments could be significant. I don't say it's inherently bad per se, but that we could find options that scale better with the growing numbers of articles and publications we're exposed to. Ironically, one of the best ways to monetize without actually have people moving money would be advertising; too bad it got rapidly out of control and what could have been say a page with 1/10 or its surface occupied by advertising is now filled with junk because there is no control over it, so people start using adblockers to remove it and we're soon back to square one.
    - soco 5y ago
      How about a working micropayments system - your wallet is in the browser anyway and the extension should ask you "this article gonna cost you x cents, wanna proceed?". Then you decide for yourself where your money goes, aka voting with your wallet. Notice I didn't mention crypto or shady spotify-like practices, just real money for real stuff.
cthaeh 5y ago
Hint: disable js. Works on most paywalled stuff.

The Bypass Paywalls extension removes the Great Wall Of Greed effectively. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-firefox/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...

dopidopHN 5y ago
For some publications it’s more a wall of beg. But still, thanks for the link.
throw0101a 5y ago
> removes the Great Wall Of Greed How about the Great Wall of Paying Journalists?
- squarefoot 5y ago
  Forcing people to sign up and pay for every article they read doesn't scale with the digital age. It could have been a solution back when the average person read say 3 physical newspapers and 5 physical magazines (made up numbers just to show the point), but now that the 30 articles one reads in a week could come from 30 different online publications, some of which could well be different the following week, the same solution doesn't scale anymore, and the money spent in commissions and taxes for all those micropayments could be significant. I don't say it's inherently bad per se, but that we could find options that scale better with the growing numbers of articles and publications we're exposed to. Ironically, one of the best ways to monetize without actually have people moving money would be advertising; too bad it got rapidly out of control and what could have been say a page with 1/10 or its surface occupied by advertising is now filled with junk because there is no control over it, so people start using adblockers to remove it and we're soon back to square one.
  - soco 5y ago
    How about a working micropayments system - your wallet is in the browser anyway and the extension should ask you "this article gonna cost you x cents, wanna proceed?". Then you decide for yourself where your money goes, aka voting with your wallet. Notice I didn't mention crypto or shady spotify-like practices, just real money for real stuff.

cthaeh 5y ago

Hint: disable js. Works on most paywalled stuff.