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It is the cookies. They want to track you and get your info.

I totally agree, but it has come to this unfortunately... 😢

i'd make my bot sign in to scrape your site anyway.

I'm with you. If you do, you'll get massive emails. Unsubscribing might take effect in 3 or 4 days. In the meantime, you have to delete 15+ emails from them.

Is bugmenot still going?

Yuuuuup. I'll stick to reading billboards and books from the library 🙄

I agree

I clicked on a link to buy a book. If the price was OK, I was going to buy it. First thing they wanted? My email. Forget it. Sale lost. Same with online news sites. Let me read text without harrassment, or go away.

my curiosity has a hard limit and it stops right before creating an account

If anyone wants to start a news distribution system where you can pay * quickly, * anonymously, * for individual articles from different sources, I'd be a customer. Pretty sure I'd pay more for news than I'm paying now.

And that's not even taking paywalls into account...

💯

The two news sources I prefer have YouTube channels and podcasts for free.

I feel like that about most things

Right?

The headline could be, “We’ve Found the Cure for All Cancers,” and I’d still be too lazy to sign in.

I know what you mean to say, and feel the same. I'm simple terms, if you want me to do something, don't intentionally make it more difficult. Like, "I want to enjoy what you've created. But if you make it a pain in the ass for me to do so? I'm totally fine just moving along to do something else."

Ditto

I’m a subscriber to NTY and the Atlantic. I never have a sign in to read articles posted on social media apps. If you’re interested in reading articles, support the free press. It takes money to run news organizations.

Yep, right on.

Like the Guardian or NYTimes pay wall when you can gloss over the facts without all the flowery overpaid in-house journalism.

I get that

The "subscribe to read 1 article" thing bothers me. I'm not gonna pay you for a year or a month for ONE article. Now, if you wanted to charge me $.99 for that article and then leave me TF alone, I'd be willing.

I am of the opinion that if you share an article, it should be made available to those you are sharing it with, without paying or subscribing. Tired of it. And don't wanna.

I dislike it too. If your message is important enough to share then it should be free to view

It’s like finally finding that cookpot you were looking for when it falls on your head. Thanks.

Precisely.

Agreed - hate that barrier.