Technology

Holy punctuation Batman!

more and more news sites are pushing for paywalls even reuters now here are some sources that don't have pay walls and Npr mentions paywall in their own new pop-up?

Have you got a paywall on fuckin punctuation mate 😂

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.

Reuters just asks for a sign up which is annoying but at least it’s free

https://www.theguardian.com

Occasional pop-up suggesting you sign up and/or donate but you can just dismiss it.

Just write headlines like this and charge people extra if they want punctuation.

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

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.

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

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.

The Associated Press is an ideal option.

dw.com

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.

As if I care :). The web is wide. I can wait whilst reading something else more usefull or waisting my time elsewhere, till all those newly paywall'ed (or accountwalled just to read) sites would want me (and other lost users) back and get rid of their paywalls.