I have to agree. Why waste space on the front page with paywalled content? I have no inclination to ever subscribe to this. I appreciate that others may have different sentiment, but this feels wasted on the majority of us.
Just Google the title and click the link to the story. Goes right around the paywall.
That works, but it misses the point. The point is to penalize sites that employ paywalls by taking your pageviews elsewhere.
Because it's wrong for companies to charge for their product or service?
I don't think anyone claimed it is wrong?
> I don't think anyone claimed it is wrong?
click170: The point is to penalize sites that employ paywalls by taking your pageviews elsewhere.
One usually penalizes behavior they consider wrong.
That's an overstatement. We need to take into account that (a) sometimes there isn't a non-paywalled version of a good story, and (b) most of these paywalls have easy workarounds. The paywalls suck, but banning paywalled links would make HN worse.