You could consider buying a subscription? I often see links on HN from places I subscribe to, so maybe the people who are voting are actually reading these articles and want to share and discuss them with the rest of the community?
I just wish I didn’t need to buy separate subscriptions for each publication. If I’m only reading one off articles from each based on others’ recommendations the individual publication subscription doesn’t really express what I’m trying to achieve.
Just how many $5/mo subscriptions do you expect people buy, and how much does that all add up to per year?
The privilege here is real.
I don’t expect people to do anything, I’m just trying to give perspective as to why someone might upvote an article they enjoyed.
Quality journalism needs to be paid, though paid how is an open question
Making people buy a subscription for every single newspaper on the planet is definitely not a working solution.
The Economist is particularly easy though - just turn off JavaScript.
I hear some scurilious dogs put the link into outline.com and often get the article text. No comments though.
Is there a tool to bypass paywalls?
On Firefox, I use Bypass Paywalls Clean
Pasting the article URL into the search over at archive.is seems to work for a lot of them
Unless you've been living under a rock, you should have noticed that most news publications are now paywalled. It's annoying but you can't just ban journalism. Blogs are dead, smaller websites are drowned by spam and new search engine "algorithms", and if you want a somewhat authoritative news piece you'll find yourself increasingly having to go behind a paywall.
What would be nice to see is a universal micropayment system instead of ads and subscriptions, but after a decade or so of nobody implementing one, be glad you can still read what you can without having to spend $200 a month on a dozen subscriptions to cover your needs.
There is one, called, err, coil. Coil.com
This is exactly what Brave is somewhat successfully solving with BAT token.