Posted on 02/25/2018 1:22:13 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
For those looking for free news online, the search is becoming harder.
Tougher restrictions on online content have boosted digital paid subscriptions at many news organizations, amid a growing trend keeping content behind a "paywall."
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
I don't miss any of the crap masquerading as journalism on the internet.
Let 'em die. They aren't trustworthy anyway.
in some cases the propagandists should rightfully have to pay us to read or view or listen to their lies
our patronage boosts their advertising rates substantially
Yahoo sucks, but the comments are great.
I seldom go to Drudge anymore. The reason is that so many of his links go to the NYT or WP with their paywalls. I would NEVER give those sources a penny or a click but Drudge doesn’t identify the “destination” of his links (all with enticing captions of course). So to avoid the frustration of clicking on the link only to be presented with a Paywall which I would never enter, the simplest solution has been for me to simply not go to Drudge.
They cannot sustain that business model. We can always find out things through other sites. I will never pay for a left wing fake news site.
Print newspapers are dead. Hoping to assist at the funeral of the NYT and Wash Post.
yep
Not to mention his constant pimping of NYT and WP like that......
Can someone explain exactly how this works? How do they use your computer to mine cryptocurrency?
Most news sites “allow” a very low quota of free views per month.
Easily defeated by disabling cookies for the site.
This is an interesting phenomenon.
The lexicon must change. What is known as “news” or “news media” is not connected to truth or even real information. At this point, all sources from CNN and Fox News to a 15 year old guy on YouTube are just sources. Their relationship to the truth will take pure intelligence synthesizing on the part of the recipient.
We won’t all “know” the same “information.” We won’t all believe the same “truths.” Trust in the sources is gone.
Screw ‘em. Any who greet me with a paywall or request to disable Adblock get closed without reading.
It would be nice if someone made an undetectable Adblocker.
If I wanted fiction, I’d go to the library.
Certainly wouldn’t pay for it.
I’m going to have to pay for leftist agitprop now? Excuse me while I crack open my piggy bank.
I prefer the pc with link being able to be id'd before clicking.
Most of them are just rehashes of AP or similar news feeds. Few have original content, except possibly for some local news items.
“People recognize that if you VALUE journalism, especially in the current political climate, you need to pay for it.”
ROTFLOL!
journalism. right.
BTW, most paywalls can be evaded even while using ad blockers by judicious use of a browser addon that manages cookies and allows for easy deletion of article-count cookies, as well NoScript used in pseudo-blacklist mode in which scripts are generally allowed except ones from content-delivery sites that are marked as “untrusted”, since adblockers are detected and acted against by certain javascript programs from said content delivery sites.
I would imagine “news” companies are falling over themselves to provide google, twitter & facebook as much news as their bandwidth can handle. I doubt if google or facebook will charge for news since they (and their advertisers) want the 100’s of millions of views/clicks.
I would imagine the paywalls are for local news and opinion pieces.
“Can someone explain exactly how this works? How do they use your computer to mine cryptocurrency?”
websites can pretty much run anything they want on your computer with javascript programs that get automatically downloaded behind your back.
I use NoScript in a pseudo-blacklist mode where I essentially allow all javascripts (most sites HAVE to have some javascript to work at all), but disallow unwanted javascripts from being downloaded by marking their delivery sites as “untrusted”.
Aside from the usual ad/garbage delivery sites I marked untrusted on salon.com, I just nuked Salon’s paywall by marking Salon.com itself as “untrusted”, resulting in all non-javascript content being downloaded just fine, but prohibiting ANY javascript from that site being downloaded. After doing that, Salon seemed to work just fine, but eliminated their big scare banner blocking all of their content from being seen ...
(Not that I would actually WANT to read Salon, just wanted to see if I could bypass their paywall crap ... which I did)
That’s been my experience. I kept getting a virus alert whenever I clicked on some of their articles. I wiped off MS Windows (not with a cloth) and went with Linux mainly because of Yahoo!
The “free news” (mostly fake news) that is being dumped on us by the media, who wants such garbage?
I stopped watching ANY TV news, listen to only the ‘headline’ break in spots during commercial time of the radio and only read Fox news on the computer (even Fox is questionable at times)
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