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Paying

Sure, let me get my credit card real quick to pay for the article about how dogs move in synchrony with their family members. I‘m sure most of the readers here have subscriptions for nytimes and 100+ other publications.

They asked for a paywall technique that works. Paying always works.

Nytimes and a few other subscriptions, yes.

Sounds like you're not interested enough to pay for it, which is fine. You're not required to read it, you're not entitled to read it, and you can move on from FOMO.

It's fine to miss out. It's fine to not read content. It's fine to not want to pay for a publication if you're fine with not accessing it.

> It's fine to miss out

Oh, I thought I was required to read this specific article. You saved me a yearly subscription, I was about to click on „buy with your second newborn“ when I read your comment. Thanks!

I don't want it injected into my stream, then. It's a virus.

The New York Times is arguably the nations newspaper of record (more Californians subscribe to the NYTimes than New Yorkers). I’d expect lots of people who value being well read to have subscriptions.

The NYTimes has 7 million subscribers per the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/business/media/nyt-earnin...

A safe bet is to assume that someone doesn't have a NYTimes subscription, no matter how much they value being well read.

A lot of well-read people don’t give money to the NYT out of principle.

> more Californians subscribe to the NYTimes than New Yorkers

This is saying more about the political affinities of both Californians and NY Times than about the quality of the newspaper.

Well judging on the comments the people who pay are morons. Want to discuss this e mail I received with a lot of misspellings?"

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