The value of basically all online news articles to me right now is $0. So I'm very comfortable paying that for them. Being able to find a link to an article I m

The value of basically all online news articles to me right now is $0. So I'm very comfortable paying that for them. Being able to find a link to an article I might be interested in offers some value (and I would pay more for better screening, see below). But being able to browse the actual content is basically worthless, sorry. In fact, I generally don't even go to a site if there is a modal popup that makes me accept cookies (occasionally I have if I'm curious enough) and I have literally never signed up, even if free, to get access to an article. Bypassing paywalls lets me pay what articles are worth to me to continue to browse them. I do pay for an article aggregation service (academic articles), and I do pay for substack newsletters (although this is in part to support work I think is good even if I wouldn't pay for every article).