The internet is almost unrecognizable from what it was 20 years ago.
Profits run everything, and while I understand that, it does lend itself to a shitty experience for the user unless you pay for it.
Yeah. One ethnic group is responsible for all the bad things. I wish people like you stayed on Reddit.
Lol. To be fair though Reuters business isn’t views it’s selling articles to other press.
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Ever notice how right-wing news is free but actual news you have to pay for.
Lmao, it’s so funny! We pay for made up things in the entertainment industry, but also pay for the truth in media. Ah, capitalism.
I literally don’t read any articles that force me to register. I feel like I’m going to become rather ignorant because of it, but I don’t want to participate in their schemes either.
Companies (like the New York times) can pay 12ft.io to make them stop bypassing the paywall. archive.today doesn’t take that money
(12ft is still a viable backup if archive.today is broken for a site, though)
I still use Google news to follow some topics and it gathers articles from my local news sites, too. But any time if shows an article that prompts me to register to see it, I just go back to the Google news page and tell it to block that source.
You annoy me once and you disappear lol.