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I signed, but let’s be honest. A pie chart showing the times I used the wayback machine to read an old NYT article vs the times I visited it due to a highly up
by eranation 5mo ago
I signed, but let’s be honest.
A pie chart showing the times I used the wayback machine to read an old NYT article vs the times I visited it due to a highly upvoted top HN comment linking to a relatively new article so we all can bypass the paywall is a solid circle.
- gblargg 5mo agoWould you have paid NYT to view the article if there weren't an archived copy? I doubt it.
- glitcher 5mo agoI would pay a small amount to read one article but I’m not going to subscribe. Who offers that?
- Permit 5mo agoBlendle, Scroll, Flattr and several others have attempted this. It turns out no consumer actually wants to do this, it’s primarily an idea that’s invoked on HackerNews to defend not subscribing to journalism while using ad blockers, it’s not a real business model.
- suddenlybananas 5mo agoHow much do they charge per article? If it's above 10 cents or so, I can't imagine it being a reasonable price.
- JumpCrisscross 5mo ago> Would you have paid NYT to view the article if there weren't an archived copy? That’s how I signed up to The Atlantic. I wanted to read the Signalgate reporting. There are other publications which get upvoted here frequently that have the paywall workarounds. I generally click around their paywall.