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Very flowery and verbose article... till I ran into the paywall
by sleepytimetea 3y ago
Very flowery and verbose article... till I ran into the paywall
- hilbert42 3y agoThey're a damn pain. It'd be nice if HN flagged them with a red asterisk or such.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoSites with paywalls that can't be bypassed are already banned.
- chewz 3y agoThis is called Hacker News for a reason, boy... > A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who uses their technical knowledge to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle, within a computerized system by non-standard means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker
- pjmlp 3y agoYeah, we don't want ads, but also don't want to pay.
- allarm 3y agoWe don’t want to pay to unblock a single random article on a random website. Also I personally don’t want to pay to read paywalled articles, that’s correct too. I just immediately close the tab.