I’m going to be honest here. If you live in a poor country, sure go ahead and bypass the paywall. But if you can afford it buy the subscription. Real journalism actually takes time and money. Because otherwise news sites depend on ad revenue which then results in click bait journalism. There is no third option. Journalism, much like anything else, is not free.
What if, and this may be shocking to some, but what if you live in a rich country and you’re dirt poor?
Do you have bootstraps?
Could you… by chance- pick yourself up by then?
But if you can afford it buy the subscription.
That model works great if you tend to get your news primarily from one news source. If you don’t, then that’s a lot of subscriptions, and especially if you want to go look at a local news article that got linked somewhere for a town you don’t even live in. Most of the time I don’t even want to register an account, let alone set up a subscription.
The message a paywalled article tells me is: I know I’ll benefit immensely and the article is a must-read, or they’ll tell me not to be interested in the outlet. Almost all the time it’s the latter. Yes, I currently subscribe to one (print) news source.
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Firefox desktop mode, hit the reader icon next to the url. no paywall
Disabling JavaScript seems to work in most cases. Not sure why that isn’t listed higher up on here
That’s my go-to technique. But I would prefer that Lifehacker was not publicizing it.
