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Thank you! It should be HN policy to not post paywall sites IMO

We post links to products that cost money, though, no? Journalists need to eat too. Usually it takes entire milliseconds for someone to post other links, anyway. Or you can always sneak around the paywall.

In this case I don't mind an article that has a bit more science bias rather than 'mainstream', so the DLR link is nice.

>In this case I don't mind //

Just to confirm you've personally paid for access to this content?

I didn't. I clicked on the German one, which I suppose I may have paid for in some tiny way, because I pay taxes in Europe. At least I'd rather think about that than people like Berlusconi and friends getting a hold of them.

I subscribe to The Economist, and occasionally buy access to the Financial Times.

Why do you ask?

Well the opinion that you "don't mind paying" for something only really means anything if you actually pay for it (or pay for something similar). If you "don't mind paying" but you're getting it free (eg via your workplace or some other way) then that opinion seems pretty void.

As a convention, there ought to be a [paywall] tag appended to the title in these cases. IIRC HN already uses [video] and [PDF].

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