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Companies need to make money somehow. If not with paywalls, it’s harder for them to avoid monetizing by tracking and advertising

Yes, but that does not imply we have to post content from sites that need to make money on their content.

I assume that the companies with paywalls still advertise and track on top of that (one reason I refuse to pay for them).

Yes, that is very unfortunate. Ars Technica at least will disable trackers on paying members