What's the point of submitting paywalled content?
Edit: This is an honest question, looking for an actual answer. Is the point just to comment on the headline?
Edit: This is an honest question, looking for an actual answer. Is the point just to comment on the headline?
In other words: if it's behind a paywall, it's for subscribers only, and it has no place on the open web, thus on HN.
I love archive.today!
As a result, the submitter may not have realized that the article is conditionally paywalled. Personally, I managed to read the article just fine.
Here's what one of the HN mods has said about paywalls:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
I have a tor window open most of the time so I usually just copy paste the url into that.
But otherwise, in the general sense, I agree with you that paywalled or subscription-based content can often be preferable to ad-based content.