• FanciestPants@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            I definitely appreciate the cheats around paywalls and mostly avoid pay walled sites myself, but I do occasionally hope that there are enough patrons of the people reporting the news to ensure that we’re not just seeing the stories that one or two rich-ass benefactors (exagerated of course) are paying to see on their platforms.

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              8 months ago

              I do occasionally hope that there are enough patrons of the people reporting the news to ensure that we’re not just seeing the stories that one or two rich-ass benefactors (exagerated of course) are paying to see on their platforms.

              Do you understand the history of newspapers? They were more biased in the past. William Randolph Hearst supposedly said: “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”

              And those biases weren’t as obvious. At least now you can easily compare and read stories from different papers on the same subject.

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      8 months ago

      A few free ways around paywalls, region-blocking, adblock-blocking, and URL glitches:

      archive.today
      slow-loading, virtually unreadable without adblocker

      Ghostarchive
      poor layout, spotty uptime

      Google Cache
      frequently fails, but reliably captures video when it works

      Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
      slow-loading, but works

      One Foot Away
      poor layout, quick-loading, spotty uptime

      12-Foor Ladder
      poor layout, quick-loading, spotty uptime, blocks major newspapers

      If there are other workarounds, please let me know.

    • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      If you use the Ublock Origin Extension, you can paste in custom filter lists that block the loading of paywalls I use this one.