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Comment by whoopdedo | Hacker News Reader

Or you could spend the money to read it.

I'm starting to feel like the people who complain about the poor quality of media and aggressive advertising are part of the problem by refusing to pay for content when it is offered to them in an up-front way. As if the entire world is entitled to open access to journalism. Or that paying for news hasn't been how publishers operated for hundreds of years.

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They don't really offer the articles under a payment model that matches my (and apparently many others' reading habits)

Making snotty, leading assumptions about people complaining about bait-and-switch links is a poor way to make one's point. Perhaps you actually do subscribe to literally every site with links posted here; I'm going to guess that most regulars here don't.

I actually do not mind links I can't hit being posted here, where it shows the domain the link goes to. That's as good as a '[paywalled]' indicator.

I do really hate it elsewhere where you can't tell before hovering the link, and think they should be optionally excludable from search engine searches, or at the very least tagged as such - I'm did not search for "media subscription pages".

They need to abandon the gym membership business model where cancellation is a Kafkaesque process.

I thought it was just me that had a bizarre experience trying to 'break-up' with the gym membership.

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