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... is just a discussion of this:

I feel like I'm being trained by these legacy media outlets to go elsewhere for news.

Same here, I refuse to solve silly CAPTCHAs because “something about my browser caught their attention”. And it's paywalled anyway, so: meh…

That's fine by them. A user that blocks ads and doesn't pay past the paywall provides no income. I think they'd rather you go elsewhere for news.