also feel free to comment your own suggestions for news sites for tech updates that don’t pay wall on the web page.
New York times - https://www.nytimes.com/section/technology abc - https://abcnews.go.com/technology
the hill - https://thehill.com/policy/technology/ BBC news - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology
while nonprofit Npr doesn’t pay wall, they have a new pop up that says something along the likes of “expected a paywall not our style please donate” that the user can dismiss and continue browsing the site. https://www.npr.org/sections/technology/
Reuters use to be a good source for me untill they started pay walling after a small amount of news article reads.
Holy punctuation Batman!
thanks I thought that my English was getting even worse
More and more news sites are implementing paywalls, and even Reuters has joined the trend. Here are some sources that do not have paywalls
I guess
Advertisements can be blocked or allowed. But my issue is with the secret tracking that goes on on most websites i encounter. I am willing to support good journalism, but i’m not willing to have my privacy invaded. Unfortunately, it is hard to separate them, because am i donating for good journalism, but also encouraging the tracking? When i donate, will they stop tracking me? Probably not.
I’m ok with scrolling past ads if they don’t obstruct my user experience. But if they pop up and move the page around, I’m out.
I think that’s the main reason many people have add blockers… Everything is either invasive or being used to track us to generate more clickbait that shove even more ads into our faces.
Pop ups are annoying on a traditional computer, but on touch interface devices they are pure evil.
Reuters just asks for a sign up which is annoying but at least it’s free
true, but i’m not signing up for something I check once in a blue moon. and I suppose technically it isn’t a paywall, but it could turn into to one, or it might as well be one, what else does this pop up serve, to protect the site from bots?
It’s still free to you. It’s not a paywall.
Mind you, you’re not contributing at all to support the material you’re consuming — there are other humans trying to make a living off the stuff you want for free.
Support things you value, otherwise they might disappear. Or worse, they introduce a true paywall.
Reuters is a bit different as a newswire, though. Their main customers are other news outlets.
That’s fair.
Maybe Reuters is finding that “end users” are becoming their new customers, especially in the current media climate.
At first blush, I think it’s ok to want to track that type of impact more.
I’d argue that it is a paywall—you’re just paying in data rather than currency.
(A lot of these can be bypassed, with varying amounts of inconvenience, by deactivating Javascript for that site.)
Occasional pop-up suggesting you sign up and/or donate but you can just dismiss it.
The Internet: “If you’re not paying, you’re the product, not the customer.” The Internet: “Ads suck! We’re going to block them.”
Content Providers: “OK, we’re going to charge to pay for our bills then.”
The Internet: “HOW DARE YOU?”
I don’t want to comment on entitlement because we’re not all in the same place financially.
However it IS important to support good journalism and some nicer models are funding through taxes (public broadcasters) or subscriptions. Subscriptions aren’t necessarily individual, and some are for through local libraries and universities.
Good journalism costs money, and it’s one of the only things that give us a fighting chance towards fixing the problems around us. If news agencies run out of funding, then they switch to other models, or worse they get sold to some corporation and the coverage is controlled.
What you can do, depending on where you are in life:
- financially: pay for subscriptions, or donate what is reasonable
- whitelist advertisements on good sites
- advocate for public funding and pooled subscriptions
Piracy / filter blockers will be around, so if all else fails just read the stories to learn and grow as a person. You can contribute and advocate someday
whitelist advertisements on good sites
Stupid question, but does that generate any benefit for the platform even if you don’t click the ads?
Even if I see an ad for something I’m interested in, I’ll act on that by looking the item in question up on a search engine or YouTube or something - never by clicking the ad, as that’s always felt like risky browsing behavior in terms of opening the doors to malware.
Fair question, I think it depends
Sites also have control over the types of ads they show, so sites with harmful ads should be blocked anyways
Just write headlines like this and charge people extra if they want punctuation.
No one source is useful in a vacuum: you need to Investigate and Interrogate all media to form a clearer picture. So if I gotta shell out 100s of dollars to get that… well I’m just gonna disconnect entirely.
I like to say long run-on sentences like it’s a bad English dub over really old Japanese animation. Then I downvote.
Are you being funny on purpose?
Why do so many people on this site hate paying for anything? You’re not entitled to everything for free.
Everything should be pirated, never use any Google or Microsoft service, use an email server you’ve built yourself, only get your social media access through obscure Mastodon servers, write your code in assembly language, only eat food you’ve caught or grown yourself, avoid the rental market by just building a hut in the woods.
You just described my retirement plans.
lmao easy enough way to live
I’ve tried quite a few Unpaywall versions of add-ons before and never had too much luck.
I suppose I’ll add another to the try list lol.
This one works very well. Of course it depends on the website but it supports a lot of them, including a lot of local and non English sites. I use it for a long time now, back then it was even still on the official addon store.
I can’t read Reuters links on my mobile because they keep demanding I provide my email. I can still view Reuters articles on my desktop without providing email. I’m not sure why it works on desktop and not on mobile. I refuse to link Reuters articles to Lemmy now.
Refuse my man… anyway the reason between the platform wonkiness is their target demo are normies using phones. So avoiding the restriction on PC is just them not coding it to be restricted on PC platform.
Many such cases. Normies love their mobile doom scrolling lives
I really don’t mind paying for good commentary and objective news, not corporate propaganda. Instead I seek foreign and objective independent sources that provide real information to temper the MSM noise.
