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Pay for the web or print edition? Journalists need to eat as well as you do. The more people aren't supporting journalists weather in Substack or Reuters, the
by colesantiago 7mo ago
Pay for the web or print edition?
Journalists need to eat as well as you do.
The more people aren't supporting journalists weather in Substack or Reuters, the more articles that will be behind a paywall.
It's such a shame as well since AI is also constantly bypassing and scraping RSS for business and commercial purposes, violating licenses.
- Marsymars 7mo agoI don't think the complaint is that RSS doesn't get around paywalls, it's that even if you pay, many publications don't offer full-text RSS.
- colesantiago 7mo agoBecause AI bots will scrape the full text RSS.
- Marsymars 7mo agoHow is a web page with the full text more resistant to that than an RSS feed with the full text?
- colesantiago 7mo agoSome RSS feeds have the full text and are transitioning users to the full content on the web page. RSS scraping is just 100x easier and some publications have taken notice. I've seen some publications are transitioning to extreme hard paywalls and are even harder to scrape.