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Why hard paywalls is not blocked on Lemmy? (ponder.cat)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Cat@ponder.cat to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org
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I started to notice some people posting NYT, Bloomberg or other websites with hard paywalls, that leads to people in the comments that are unable to read the article to discuess the headline without any analysis and some times spreading misinformation, which cannot be countered by the article, due to the paywall.

Which bring me to this: Why does no one thought about blocking hard paywalled articles for the sake of quality of discussion?

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[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

Those "hard paywalls" often go away with the right combination of browser, archive, and/or ad blocker.

If anything, I'd vote for archive links for everything, instead of an article that can be amended or removed at any time. If it's good for Wikipedia, it should be good for Lemmy.

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