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more and more news sites are pushing for paywalls even reuters now here are some sources that don't have pay walls and Npr mentions paywall in their own new pop-up? (lemmy.world)
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also feel free to comment your own suggestions for news sites for tech updates that don't pay wall on the web page.

New York times - https://www.nytimes.com/section/technology abc - https://abcnews.go.com/technology

the hill - https://thehill.com/policy/technology/ BBC news - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology

while nonprofit Npr doesn't pay wall, they have a new pop up that says something along the likes of "expected a paywall not our style please donate" that the user can dismiss and continue browsing the site. https://www.npr.org/sections/technology/

Reuters use to be a good source for me untill they started pay walling after a small amount of news article reads.

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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Reuters just asks for a sign up which is annoying but at least it’s free

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    true, but i'm not signing up for something I check once in a blue moon. and I suppose technically it isn't a paywall, but it could turn into to one, or it might as well be one, what else does this pop up serve, to protect the site from bots?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s still free to you. It’s not a paywall.

    Mind you, you’re not contributing at all to support the material you’re consuming — there are other humans trying to make a living off the stuff you want for free.

    Support things you value, otherwise they might disappear. Or worse, they introduce a true paywall.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Reuters is a bit different as a newswire, though. Their main customers are other news outlets.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    That’s fair.

    Maybe Reuters is finding that “end users” are becoming their new customers, especially in the current media climate.

    At first blush, I think it’s ok to want to track that type of impact more.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I'd argue that it is a paywall—you're just paying in data rather than currency.

    (A lot of these can be bypassed, with varying amounts of inconvenience, by deactivating Javascript for that site.)

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