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[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago (22 children)

Doesn't NYT cut off most of the article now? I used to just be able to disable JS but that didn't work anymore last I checked.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Yeah the article stub doesn't link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don't have a session.

It's incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.

In this very particular situation I'm glad most companies are lazy and stupid.

I don't particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don't make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.

[–] ChuckEffingNorris@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought the issue was they wanted search engines to be able to see the content, but not non paying viewers? Hence slightly shitty paywalls.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Eh you're right of course. Like I said below. Search engines have become useless anyway..

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